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Fall Tarpon – Sanibel Fishing Charters!

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We are starting off a little earlier than usual with our fall flats fishing trend. Big tarpon have been making random appearances off the beaches, Delicious triple tail are out floating with the left over crab pods and no wake  Markers, and what seems like endless amounts of Spanish Mackeral & Jack Creval schools are terrorizing the bait schools off the beaches. All of which will readily eat a lively Pilchard or Threadfin. Let’s just keep our fingers crossed for good Sanibel weather to go along with an awesome bite!

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Sanibel Island Flats Fishing Charter for Redfish

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Been having a lot of rain lately as is expected for the month of August. But with the storms, we also get boat loads of redfish swimming aggressively through out our local waters. Evelyn from Puerto Rico Caught her first redfish ever with us and it was a monster! We caught several fish throughout the morning including snook, redfish, snapper, and jacks! It was a awesome morning flats fishing out on the water. We made it back to the dock just in time to safely watch the thunder storms roll in!

Tight lines everybody! Thanks for reading.

-Capt. Matt Johnson

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Summer is cooling down, Redfish are heating up!

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Summer days are starting to feel a little cooler lately, and when that happens. Our schools of redfish are not to far behind. We’ve been seeing numerous schools on just about every shallow grass flat in our bay.

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It’s exciting for us in that the redfish often times are spotted by them waiving their big bronze tail out of the water. They are spooky, but sneaky casts at them are not often over looked!

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Tailing redfish on the flat

Tailing redfish on the flat

-Capt. Matt Johnson

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Tarpon Season Sanibel Fort Myers!

By Boca Grande, charters, Fishing, Fort Myers, Sanibel, Sanibel fishing, Tarpon, tarpon chartersNo Comments

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dv23ecOfGYw/VWTkYz7UzxI/AAAAAAAACg0/vfqVcehy7DI/s640/blogger-image--971440190.jpgWe are now about a third of the way into our Tarpon season here in SW Florida. Captains Bill and Matt have been doing their job and getting their customers on some big Silver Kings!

They’ve been mostly down south off Fort Myers Beach but are working their way up to Boca Grande where these 150 lb plus beauties com year after year.

The action has been good and really heating up as June is just around the corner! There are just a few slots left so don’t delay, book your tarpon charter today!

Capt. Bill Hammond owns and operates
Endless Summer Charters in Ft. Myers & Sanibel
www.EndlessSummerCharters.net

EPIC Sanibel Fishing Charter

By Brendan Coudal, Capt. Bill Hammond, endlesssummercharters, epic, flounder, fort myers fishing charters, redfish, Sanibel fishing charters, snookNo Comments

On Friday I got to have a day that, as a fishing guide, you would like to have everyday be as epic a day as this one.

I got a call from my friend, Sarasota artist and angler Brendon Coudal, who said his friends were in town from Indiana and he and his wife were driving down to meet them.

They thought it would be great to let them experience a little of Florida fishing. I thought that was a great idea and we set a date.

Fishing with locals for me always seems to set up several challenges. It seems as if Mother Nature knows and throws me a curve ball every time. In this case I lost a bit of sleep the night before knowing this.

As if fishing after a big full moon isn’t hard enough we were having a small front move through and another one right behind it. I was sure the conditions weren’t going to be favorable for a good bite but as always I was going to give it my best shot.

I picked up my group at the Sanibel Harbor Marriott Resort and made a short run to my best spot for that tide that I knew of. I hooked a live pilchard on a spinning rig, made a cast and handed it to Brendan. From that first cast it was pandemonium for the next 3 hours! At one point we had fish on the deck and fish hooked up. We caught Snook, redfish, big trout and flounder. Schools of big jacks kept coming in giving my anglers quit the work out.

I could not have asked for a better day for anyone. This trip will go down as one of my personal best. Great friends, great fishing, and a lifetime of memories. Doesn’t get any better than that.
Thank you Brendan for allowing me to guide you, your wife, and friends on Friday. I hope we can make a habit of it!

Capt. Bill Hammond owns and operates
Endless Summer Charters in Ft. Myers & Sanibel
www.EndlessSummerCharters.net

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Sanibel Fall fishing

By Endless Summer Charters, fishing tournaments, fort myers fishing charters, Sanibel, Sanibel fishing chartersNo Comments

blogger-image-953713866As we move into October, like clockwork our first front of the fall season has moved in as well temps dipped into the low 70s, brrrrrr! Break out the fleece!

Fishing ahead of the front things couldn’t have been more exciting. This past Saturday I had the pleasure to fish an all female team in the B103 Racks and Reels fishing tournament benefitting the American Cancer Society.

We had a impressive day ahead of this front. This was a ladyfish only tourney and boy did we find some. We boated over 70 fish and weighed in our best 12 for a weight of 13.94 locking up a 3rd place spot. Thanks to the Timbers Resturant and the Sanibel Grill for their sponsorship. Our team fished nothing but artificial which provided a lot of great action…. Big trout, snook and jack crevalle but the big treat was jumping tarpon as the sun was rising. Funny what a little change in temperature will do.

Please contact Angela should you want to participate in one of our local fishing tournaments! We’ll get you hooked up!

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Endless Summer Charters in Ft. Myers & Sanibel
www.EndlessSummerCharters.net

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Fort Myers Beach Fishing Tournament

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The Racks & Reels fishing tournament out of Fort Myers Beach, Florida was a great event that raised money for the American Cancer Society.

I was lucky enough to guide one of the winning teams and ended up with a third place finish! This all ladies tournament was the first in what we hope will be a yearly fishing event!

Congrats to Ashley Kneram, Kaitlin Rae and Kelly Bonkowski for winning the $3000 purse! Way to go girls!

If you would like to do a fishing tournament on my boat please contact me. I can let you know of any upcoming events you can enter and hopefully win like Team Timbers pictured above!

Capt. Bill Hammond owns and operates
Endless Summer Charters in Ft. Myers & Sanibel
www.EndlessSummerCharters.net

Sanibel Fishing for Redfish

By Endless Summer Charters, Fort Myers fishing, pine island sound, Port Sanibel Marina, redfish, Sanibel, Sanibel fishing, Sanibel fishing chartersNo Comments

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Today as we left the dock we notice a slight and I mean slight change in temperature. The rain for the last few days has subsided and the “cool” front has turned the redfish bite on in Pine Island sound.
Our charter started off right with 2 nice snook and a big jack and as the high tide started to flood the mangroves the redfish moved off the flats and headed for the tress. We had several nice slot size reds as well as a few oversize on our morning charter.

As fall approaches SW Florida large schools of Redfish will start pushing south though out Pine Island sound a make the flats and islands behind Sanibel and Captiva their home for the next few months until we see the first few cold fronts.

Tight lines,
Capt. Bill Hammond
www.endlesssummetcharters.net

Sanibel Fishing Charters, Fort Myers Fishing Charters, Sanibel Island Fishing Charters, Shelling

By fort myers fishing charters, Port Sanibel Marina, Royal Shell Vacations, Sanibel Captiva Fishing, Sanibel fishing charters, Sanibel shelling, tarpon chartersNo Comments

We have had a fantastic year and want to thank our customers for their continued charter business! We see many (or most) of our charters on a yearly basis if not sooner. I think that’s what sets us apart, we build relationships. The families that visit Sanibel, Captiva, Fort Myers Beach and even Cape Coral can’t miss out on a great day on the water with Capt. Bill year after year.

You’re really missing out on the best that this area has to offer if you don’t book a charter at least one day of your vacation.

The great outdoors and especially the islands of our coast and the Gulf of Mexico is what brought settlers here in the first place.

The abundance of sea life, world class fishing, birdwatching, the pristine beaches with miles of shells are just a few things to see on the water.

Did you know this is the birthplace of sport fishing? The great Silver King, aka Tarpon was the very first fish considered a sport fish and was caught just a few miles from Port Sanibel Marina in Tarpon Bay near Sanibel Island, Florida. This mean strictly caught for the fight and trophy.

Today we do catch and release only but any fish can be mounted or “recreated” as a trophy to hang on your wall without harm to the fish! The taxidermist that mount these fish are true artist. Endless Summer Charters is a representative of Gray Taxidermy and can have your fish mounted by simply getting photos and measurements.

Not only does your mount act as a source of conversation and a true trophy but a work of art to treasure from the birth place of sport fishing!
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Visit us at Endless Summer Charters website and book you charter today. Get out there and catch that trophy fish!
Capt. Bill Hammond owns and operates
Endless Summer Charters in Ft. Myers & Sanibel
www.EndlessSummerCharters.net

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