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  • Captain Dave Hanson is a native of southwest Florida. He has been fishing local waters since childhood, and has been fishing professionally for over fifteen years. He is Coast Guard licensed, and is a member in good standing of the Bonita Springs Chamber of Commerce. He has been quoted and featured in several national fishing magazines, and he also appears weekly in the fishing reports sections of the local paper.

  • South West Florida Fishing Report

    Fishbuster Charters’ Captain Dave Hanson reported,"Bob and Jo-Ellen Exby fished 18 miles offshore with me on Tuesday, 10/22, just ahead of a cool-front due in the next day. The day began calm, and seas of one-foot were predicted by NOAA, but we had two-to-three foot seas most of the morning, as winds picked up to 15 knots prematurely. The couple used live shrimp to catch a nice, 17-inch hogfish, a keeper 21 1/2-inch red grouper, a keeper yellowtail snapper, three keeper porkfish, and four keeper whitebone porgies. They released a half dozen mangrove snapper shorts and six porgy-shorts.

    I had hoped to take a group out for a full day of offshore fishing on Saturday, 10/26 but, following Tuesday, our conditions changed and the winds and seas built for three days. By Saturday afternoon, it was calming, but seas well offshore were still three-to five feet Saturday. My group deferred their trip for a day with more favorable conditions."


    Angler Roberto Russi with a 25 1/2-inch red grouper, caught on a grunt on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.




    Angler Jim Jambor with an 25 1/2-inch redfish, one of two nice reds caught on shrimp in Estero Bay on a recent inshore Fishbuster Charter.
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