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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 - FL

    Fishbuster Charters' Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Monday morning, 12/29, I fished 18 miles west of New Pass with Brad and Amanda Clemmons and Amanda’s parents, John and Debbie McCracken, along with friend, John Lyons. The group used live shrimp to catch fifteen whitebone porgies to 18 inches, seven mangrove snapper to 14 inches, and a dozen good-sized grunts. They also caught eight red grouper to 26 inches, two of which were keeper-size, but all of which had to be released due to closed season.


    Tuesday morning, 12/30, I headed back out 18 to 20 miles from New Pass with The John Duritsh family—John, Eric, Dave, Tim and Matt. The guys used live shrimp to catch twenty nice porgies, ten nice lane snapper, all about 12 inches, and a 13-inch mangrove snapper. They released several gag grouper.

    Wednesday, Mike Rohrbacher and his two teen-aged grandsons spent the last morning of 2014 fishing 18 miles west of New Pass with me, using live shrimp to lure a nice variety of fish. The guys caught and released several red grouper to 23 1/2 inches, along with some small gag grouper. They got into some very nice lane snapper, and kept four of those that were 14 inches, and one just short of 15 inches, which is quite big for a lane. They added to the box a 16-inch hogfish, and a half-dozen porgies to 14 inches.. They released a bunch of smaller porgies, along with fifteen short mangrove snapper.


    After a day off the water on New Years’ Day, I headed back offshore on Friday morning, 1/2/15, with Bob and Katie Sawyer and friend, Bill Teutsch and his son, Nick. The red grouper bite was hot for live shrimp, about 22 miles west of New Pass, and the group caught twenty-five of those, boxing three keepers, two at 21 inches and one at 23 inches. There were four others that were right about at the 20-inch mark, but a little too close to call, so we released those, along with the remaining shorts. The anglers also caught ten keeper lane snapper, all about 12 inches, and about twenty-five grunts, of which they boxed the four largest. They released a few mangrove snapper shorts. As for big-game, we hooked up with a 5-foot tiger shark, which bit a piece of a grunt, and which provided a great battle, photographs and video before we released it. It was a beautiful fish, prettiest tiger I have seen.

    Winds picked up Saturday morning, 1/3/15, and seas were choppy 19 miles west of New Pass, where I fished with Bob Eckle and his sons, Nick and Jason. Nick caught a beautiful gag grouper at 30 inches, which we photographed and released, due to closed season still in effect for gags. Bob released a nice triggerfish at 17 inches, and the group released lots of red grouper shorts. They also caught twenty-five porgies to 17 inches and kept a half dozen of the largest, releasing the rest, along with a couple of porkfish and some grunts. Everything bit on shrimp."

    1.) Angler Joe George with a 27-inch red grouper, one of fifteen, caught on shrimp and released, 19 miles west of New Pass on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.



    2.) Angler Joe George with an 18-inch hogfish, caught on shrimp and released 19 miles west of New Pass on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.

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