Florida Trip

[HammsRMK]

Hey guys, I did a search for trips to Florida and I didn't find anything. If you know of any other thread just point me in the right direction. SOOOOO! Next March the family is going on vacation for a week to Marco Island in Florida. I was wondering if anyone has any experience of doing any fishing out of there? We are looking for just the two of us for a day. Any recommendations or any input would be great. I am just started looking in to it now as we just booked the house this week.

Thanks,

 

[Allen]

I don't know Marco Island, or about the March timeframe. But I did go there this last weekend and the fishing was good, damn good. Chased tarpon for a couple of days and ended up catching one at right around 100 lbs according to the guide, and did a day of deep water fishing where we busted the chops of the king mackerel and bonita while also catching a couple of sandbar sharks (7+ ft) and a barracuda. My frigging arms still hurt.

Note, we fished Tarpon out of Fort Myers, and drove across the state to fish the deeper water out of Fort Lauderdale.

 

[jwhite58502]

John Campbell is a longtime walleye tournament guy who now guides and lives in Marco Island I do not have contact info but I bet you could google him. Very nice guy

 

[Ericb]

I was just in the Orlando area. I went out on a party fishing boat. $160 for the boy and I. It included breakfast and lunch. They also sold beer pretty cheap. We went out about 20 miles and jigged in 100+ ft of water. We cought some mangrove snapper and little junk fish. 2 Cobia were boated. I'd go that route again as I thought you got much more for your money. Two years ago we rented a pontoon just north of where your going. We caught fish and got some cool interaction from some dolphins.

I'm not 100% sure but I think the tarpon would be shallow that far south that time of year.

 

[deleted user]

I've gone out of Clearwater and Pine island SW of fort myers. Any guide is going to be around $300-$600 for the two people, more for certain types of fish. Offshore can be more since you'll need to pay for a full day. Tipping is customary. You can also usually find a couple who want to split a trip and hop on with them, save a little cash. You could also rent gear and shore fish.