Fishbuster Charters' Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Jake Heft and five of his friends fished 19 miles west of New Pass with me on Monday, 7/15, using cut-bait and squid. The guys boxed a 14-inch whiting, a 14-inch silver trout, four keeper lane snapper, and a 14-inch grunt. They released eight red grouper shorts and a 4-foot blacknose shark.


Ken Harrison, Jeff Norton, Rich Flaherty, and John Lovezzola fished the backwaters of southern Estero Bay with me on Saturday, 7/20, and had very good success using live shrimp for bait. The guys caught three keeper black drum at 15 inches, 16 inches, and 19 inches, released three redfish (due to a moratorium on harvesting reds) that included two at 18 inches and one at nearly 22 inches, two keeper sheepshead at 13 inches, a sand bream, and three keeper mangrove snapper to 12 inches"

1.) Angler Mike Quillen with a 21-inch redfish, caught on shrimp and released (due to harvesting moratorium) in Estero Bay on a recent inshore Fishbuster Charter.




2.) Angler Gary Hourselt with an 18-inch whitebone porgy, caught on squid 36 miles west of New Pass on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.