Catch Of The Day

The Naples Daily News and naplesnews.com are showcasing fishing photos from throughout the region. Anyone can submit a photo for inclusion. Ideally, submissions will include a photo of the fish and angler, location, type of bait or lure, fishing and weather conditions or a general description. Example: Marco Island, Jane Doe of Marco Island caught this 200-pound tarpon while fishing near Doctors Pass with live mullet on a calm morning. Photos will be selected from the gallery each week and used in our publications, such as the Naples Daily News, The Banner, Marco Eagle and Collier Citizen among others. There is no cost associated with submitting content. It's just another chance to brag about your catch. Please e-mail your photo to news@naplesnews.com to be considered for this feature.

Full gallery »Catch of the Day: May 24, 2012

  • Locals, Dan and Chris Barrus, caught their limit of Red Grouper on Sunday while fishing with their dad, Captain Paul.
  • Rhys Brossard and Filipe Gonzales with a double-catch. They caught both Ladyfish using live shiners for bait.
  • This 40-inch snook was caught and released just off the Kid Wreck on May 21, 2012 by Chris Laimbeer using a live pin fish on the bottom while drifting.
  • Pablo Codi pulled in this Blacktip Shark at Big Carlos Pass on May 19 2012. He used a ladyfish head for bait as the tide was ebbing.
  • Breanna Stephens caught this huge Red Fish while fishing the Gordon River in the a.m. Her wonderful boyfriend put her in the great location for this catch.
  • Local Capt. Eddie Challinor lands and releases a 200-pound Goliath Grouper on a wreck off of Fort Myers.

The Naples Daily News and naplesnews.com are showcasing fishing photos from throughout the region. Email your photo to news@naplesnews.com to be considered for this feature.



Full gallery »Catch of the Day: May 17, 2012

  • Gary Ellsworth caught a 40-pound Black Grouper in the Dry Tortugas.
  • Mason Jones-Mealer caught his first Red Fish using live shrimp on his visit with his dad, Fred Herman Jones.
  • Pete Seitz of Naples caught two snook within 15 minutes of each other. The snook were caught on live white bait. Both snook were revived and released back into Johnson Bay. This snook was 35-inches and 25-pounds.
  • This is the second snook caught by Pete Seitz of Naples. This snook was 34-inches and 20-pounds.
  • Preston Smith caught this nice Snook at his favorite fishing spot using a Golden Eye lure.
  • Christian Roberti from North Kingston, RI. caught this 28-inch snook with a white Rapala on a rainy day. He caught this while he was traveling from Route 41 to Chockoloskee with his brother, Ethan, his father and his grandfather.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: April 26, 2012

  • Chuck Tabeling, Chuck Tabeling, Jr. and Joe Prahme caught this 40 pound cobia on a large jig and sardine combo while fishing about 30 miles west of Goodland. This was the winning fish in the Island Woman fishing contest.
  • Kevin Weber, of the Getsnookerd tournament fishing team, opens a cast net on a school of large pilchards before heading offshore for a day of fishing.
  • Alex Wagoner with a Gag Grouper, caught and released off of New Pass.
  • Kristy Applegate caught this 32 inch redfish in Matlacha using a Greenback.
  • Mel Butler with a 32 inch snook, caught in Everglades National Park.
  • Pat Butler with a 34 inch redfish, caught on a jig south of Chokoloskee.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: April 19, 2012

  • Hannah Foley, of Naples, caught this 20 inch Jack Crevalle while fishing in North Dollar Bay using live shrimp on Saturday, April 14.
  • Caitlyn Forbes caught this 8 pound bass in Ave Maria using a black and pink worm.
  • Stephanie Anderson, of North Naples, holds her prized dolphin catch after a day of fishing 40 miles out from Marco Island.
  • This 40 inch snook was caught and released on Tuesday, April 10, by Steve Garske, of Marco Island. Garske was fishing with Joe Moris, of Estero, when they found the snook by the back of Mound Key in Estero Bay and hooked it on a 5 inch long live white bait.
  • Ethan Altaratz boated his first tarpon while fishing south of Marco Island.
  • Luke Thomas from Wyalusing, PA, caught this five foot long blacktip shark while fishing in the Ten Thousand Islands with Captain Chris DeWitt.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: April 12, 2012

  • Trisha Borges, of Naples, caught her first grouper about 50 miles off of Marco Island with live bait, one day before her birthday.
  • Merrissa Castro, of Naples, caught this kingfish about 10 miles out of Naples at Ricky's Red Reef using live shrimp as bait on April 3.
  • Doug Paulson from Dent, MI, with a gator trout caught on a gulp shrimp in cape Romano.
  • Gerry Mahnke caught this 21 inch, five and a half pound largemouth bass at Berkshire Lakes. He caught it on a Texas-rigged Berkley power lizard.
  • Jeff Pinkett of Chagrin Falls, OH, caught this 5 lb trout using a pin fish at Wiggins Pass.
  • Amelia, from Minneapolis, caught this sheepshead using live shrimp in a strong outgoing tide while fishing Wiggins Pass with her grandfather, George, on April 5.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: April 5, 2012

  • Ian Smuczynski caught this huge fish in his backyard at the Orchards.
  • Steve McCool of West Roxbury, MA, with a 35 inch snook caught on live bait. McCool was fishing in Marco with Captain Bruce Jackmack.
  • 13 year old Jack McCool of West Roxbury, MA, with a couple of slot redfish caught on live bait with Captain Bruce Jackmack.
  • Kyle Schaff, from Iowa, caught a 19 inch Spanish mackerel with live shrimp bait on March 17, 2012. He caught it off Redfish Pass near Sanibel Island.
  • Doris Sowers with a 400 pound goliath grouper that was caught about 20 miles out of Gordon's Pass. This picture made an appearance in the Naples Daily News way back in the mid-1970's.
  • Cole Honeycutt, from Cincinnati, with a hogfish that he caught on shrimp 5 miles out from Naples pier with Captain Jason.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: March 29, 2012

  • Pete Palson, from Bonita Springs, with a 65 pound amberjack that he caught on a blue runner while fishing 34 miles offshore of Bonita Beach with recreational fisherman Gregg Bedell.
  • Angler Rodney Bromm and Captain Dave Hanson, with a 20 pound, 45 inch king mackerel that they caught on shrimp on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.
  • Seven-year-old Malachy Bowles, from Naples, caught this Spanish mackerel fishing south of Goodland with Captain Jesse Karen.
  • Eleven-year-old Rory Bowles, of Naples, caught this sea trout fishing south of Goodland with Captain Jesse Karen.
  • Anthony Santiago caught this 80 inch blacktip shark on March 19, using a 10 inch mullet for bait.
  • Anthony Santiago caught this 73 inch bull shark on Friday, March 17 2010.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: March 22, 2012

  • Alex Cabada caught this 25 inch sea trout with a thread at Third Avenue.
  • Wendy Ott and Carol Matarazzo caught this nine-pound, 20-inch grouper while fishing seven miles offshore from Fort Myers Beach.
  • Kevin Weber with a 30 pound cobia caught onboard the Getsnookerd fishing team's Contender, 44 miles southwest of Gordon's Pass using a live pilchard for bait.
  • Captain Neal and deckhand Bob Marvin were on a full-day deep sea fishing trip on the M/V KUDU 23 miles offshore, when they hooked a 10 foot sandbar shark. They fought the shark for 65 minutes.
  • Herman Herford, from Urbana, OH, caught this 60 pound amberjack on a pinfish while fishing 38 miles offshore of Bonita Beach with recreational fisherman Gregg Bedell, owner of Captain Ed's Charter Boats.
  • Cole Jacobson caught this sheepshead using live shrimp while fishing with his family at Doctor's Pass.


Full gallery »Catch of the Day: March 22, 2011

  • Kevin Weber, with a 30 pound cobia caught 35 miles off of Naples using a live pilchard for bait.
  • Alex Cabada caught this 25 inch sea trout with a thread at Third Avenue.
  • Wendy Ott and Carol Matarazzo caught this nine-pound, 20-inch grouper while fishing seven miles offshore from Fort Myers Beach.
  • Kevin Weber with a 30 pound cobia caught onboard the Getsnookerd fishing team's Contender, 44 miles southwest of Gordon's Pass using a live pilchard for bait.
  • Captain Neal and deckhand Bob Marvin were on a full-day deep sea fishing trip on the M/V KUDU 23 miles offshore, when they hooked a 10 foot sandbar shark. They fought the shark for 65 minutes.
  • Herman Herford, from Urbana, OH, caught this 60 pound amberjack on a pinfish while fishing 38 miles offshore of Bonita Beach with recreational fisherman Gregg Bedell, owner of Captain Ed's Charter Boats.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: March 15, 2012

  • Amanda Ohlis caught her very first fish, a 14 inch sheepshead, in Estero Bay with Captain Dan Leonard.
  • John-John Brossard with the five-foot bull shark he caught, tagged and released on Saturday, March 10 out of Marco Island.
  • Derick Swank of Naples caught this 15 pound permit fish using shrimp as bait, out about 10 miles in the Gulf. While reeling it in, a 10 foot bullhead shark bit the tail off of the fish. He was fishing with Capt. Jimbo Hail in the Gulf.
  • Ken Ford with his catch, a black tip shark.
  • Jasmine Ford holding a sheepshead that she caught in March.
  • Captain Mark Yimin, of fishingchartersfortmyersfl.com, with a snook that he caught using fresh, live pilchards for bait.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: March 8, 2012

  • Vicki Hufstetler, of Fairfield, Ohio, recently caught this 6 pound largemouth bass while fishing with a shiner in a pond in Bonita Springs.
  • This 25 inch red grouper was caught last week by Rusty Moore, of Naples, while fishing offshore with Captain Jimbo Hail.
  • Chris Bourgeois of Portland, Maine, caught this redfish while fishing in the Ten Thousand Islands with Captain Bill Miller and Bud Hoffman on February 24, 2012. It was caught on a lure casting from the boat.
  • Tim Piscatelli caught this 26 inch redfish in Blackwater River out of Goodland. He used a skitter-walk for bait.
  • Jim Singer, from Canastota, New York, caught this 26 inch red drum on live shrimp while fishing on a boat dock at lower Big Hickory Bay.
  • Belen landed her first catfish from a deck boat while fishing off of Marco Island.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: March 1, 2012

  • Josephine Vickaryous, 6, with her first redfish. She caught it on live shrimp and popping cork in the Ten Thousand Islands.
  • Rhys Brossard caught this small largemouth bass on a piece of chicken gizzard while trying to catch freshwater catfish. It was released in a canal in Naples.
  • Brooke's catch of the day, a 13-inch flounder.
  • Filipe Fernandes with a soft-shelled turtle. He caught it while trying to catch catfish in a freshwater canal in Naples using chicken gizzards for bait. It was released.
  • Gary Laster caught this snook at Wiggins Pass on a White Shrimp Gulp Bait.
  • Karen Pierce-Laster caught this sheepshead on a jig with a frozen shrimp near Clam Pass.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Feb. 23, 2012

  • Michael Levaul and Pat McGlynn caught this six-foot bull shark in New Pass, Bonita Springs. The shark had gotten a reputation as of late for aggressively eating all the sheepshead in the area, and was found to be pregnant. The shark pups were released.
  • Josh Carter, of Naples, landed a 75-pound Cobia 25 miles offshore. He used a tube lure as bait. He was accompanied by his father, Kevin, and Dr. David Schewitz and his son Adam.
  • Pete Paulson, of Bonita Springs, with a 33-inch gag grouper that he caught and released while fishing 34 miles offshore of Bonita Beach on a bait fish with recreational fisherman Gregg Bedell, owner of Captain Ed's Charter Boats.
  • Captain Don Meister, with a 60-pound Amberjack that he caught and released on a pinfish while fishing a wreck 68 miles offshore of Bonita Beach with recreational fisherman Gregg Bedell, owner of Captain Ed's Charter Boats.
  • Amber Baily caught this 24-inch snook on artificial bait in Estero Bay on February 19.
  • Captain Chris Workman caught this 22-pound mutton snapper onboard the Getsnookerd tournament fishing team's Contender, while fishing 62 miles southwest of Gordon's Pass using pilchards.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Feb. 16, 2012

  • Erin Espineta, with a Jack Crevalle caught on the Imperial River.
  • Brian Lammert from Chicago, IL, caught and released this 27 1/2-inch Grouper on a shrimp in Estero Bay while fishing with Captain Ed's Charter Boats out of Bonita Bay Marina.
  • Recreational fisherman Gregg Bedell, owner of Captain Ed's Charter Boats, caught this 24 3/4-inch mangrove snapper on a pin fish while fishing with friends 26 miles offshore from Bonita Beach.
  • Larry Burchfield from Columbus, OH, caught these mangrove snappers on a shrimp while fishing 18 miles offshore with recreational fisherman Gregg Bedell, owner of Captain Ed's Charter Boats.
  • Karen Pierce caught this spotted sea trout in Clam Pass on a Silver Spoon.
  • Captain Jerry Kernan caught his largest snook to date, at 46 inches, on a shrimp in Fakahatchee Bay in a foot and a half of water on a falling tide.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Feb. 9, 2012

  • Captain Chris Workman caught this 76-pound cobia while fishing onboard the Getsnookerd Fishing Team's Contender, with Kevin Weber running the gaff.
  • Submitted by John Repoza.
  • Submitted by John Repoza.
  • Captain Mark at Naples Marina And Excursions and Reel 1 Up Fish & Dive Charters caught this 12-pound sheepshead.
  • Three-year-old Reece Hooks and her father, both visiting from Kentucky, caught this redfish on a shrimp fishing south of Marco Island. It was her first redfish.
  • Bernadette Brown caught this bass with a #7 shallow Shad Rap from a pond in Naples on February 2.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Feb. 2, 2012

  • Larry Flagg caught a 32-inch gag grouper on a shrimp, and then released it. Flagg caught the fish eighteen miles west of New Pass, on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.
  • Captain Jim Chaffee, of Marco Island, caught this 39-inch amberjack on January 23, using a blue runner near a radio tower in 70 feet of water.
  • Seven-year-old Robert Hennig, from Naples, FL, caught this largemouth bass in Belle Meade with a rubber worm on January 29, 2012. The bass managed to break Hennig's fishing rod in the struggle, but its efforts were no match for the young boy on that day.
  • Dalton Ackley and his grandfather Ron Jahnke, both from Lee County, with a Peacock Bass. They caught it while fishing the Miami Canals, near Miami International Airport.
  • Gregg Bedell, owner of Captain Ed's Charter Boats, with a 22 and a half-inch mangrove snapper that he caught on a shrimp while fishing 26 miles offshore of Bonita Beach.
  • Joan Barkell caught this 27-inch redfish on a shrimp at the pier at Caxambas Boat Ramp in November. It was her first time fishing.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Jan. 26, 2012

  • Trey Hill, 5, after catching an 'early birthday' bass.
  • During the Christmas Holiday, C.C. Wu, Jim Shepherd and Mark Russell teamed up to catch and release this tarpon while fishing for grouper six miles out of Wiggins Pass.
  • Submitted by Barry Nichols
  • Submitted by Barry Nichols
  • Submitted by Barry Nichols
  • Submitted by Barry Nichols

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Jan. 19, 2012

  • Ginny H., from Chicago, with a 40-inch redfish that she caught with Captain Jesse Karen of Madsnookin.com Charters.
  • Eric Neith caught and released this 28-inch grouper five miles out of Wiggins Pass.
  • Payton Arnett with her first saltwater fish, caught last week.
  • Warren Maurer, of Philadelphia, snapped this picture of the sunrise while fishing on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 14.
  • Ken Chute, of Naples, caught this 27-inch redfish in Marco Island with Captain Gregg of Madsnookin Charters.
  • Captain John Brossard caught this four-pound tilapia on a worm while fishing on a lake by his house.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Jan. 12, 2012

  • Danny, from Weston, with a bull redfish that he caught south of Goodland with Capt. Jesse Karen of Madsnookin Charters.
  • Jim Kenney, of Marco Island, caught this redfish on a chartreuse jig while fishing south of Marco.
  • Jim Kenney, of Marco Island, caught this 38-inch snook south of Marco on a chartreuse jig, after a 15-minute battle.
  • Malachy Bowles caught this pompano on New Year's Day near Marco Island.
  • Ray Lepar caught this gag 30 miles offshore out of Wiggins Pass with a sand perch. The fish was released.

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Full gallery »Catch of the Day: Dec. 29, 2011

  • Hyman Kaplan of Bonita Springs caught this red fish in the Everglades.
  • Roger D. Gladden (left) of Naples and fishing guide Ray Culver (right) show off one of Triple Tail they caught near the Lost Man's River in the Everglades.
  • Dennis Zielinski is shown with this Bonnethead Shark he caught on Barefoot Beach.
  • Rhys Brossard of Naples ice fishing in Pelican Rapids, MN and caught a Northern Pike on a minnow.
  • Willy caught this Snook while fishing with Captain Joey with BustnLoose Backwater Charters out of Naples using a live pilchard.
  • John Brossard with a Sharp Nose Shark caught off Macro Island with a small jack.

The Naples Daily News and naplesnews.com are showcasing fishing photos from throughout the region. Email your photo to news@naplesnews.com to be considered for this feature.




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