Good Time Charters

Lots of fishing fun going on around Fort Myers Beach with Captain Mike! Currently, the redfish bite has been great, and the snapper are hungry! Lots of keeper flounder are being caught on the flats too. Pompano and jacks are also being caught near shore and they are always a fun fight! Here are a couple photos of two of our regulars from recent charters. Jack, now 5 yrs old, has been going fishing with Capt Mike since before he could walk! In the photo he is showing off his flounder he landed. The other photo is of Jenni, while not an experienced fisherwomen, she can sure land them just like the pros! Jenni recently caught this beautiful pompano while fishing with Capt Mike around Fort myers Beach.

We had a mom charter our boat for her son’s 13th birthday. We had a great time with the dolphins and ended with a gorgous sunset off Fort Myers Beach. We absolutely loved the cake that his mom got from our beach Publix that looked exactly like a Cheeseburger! While he cut the cake, we played Cheeseburger in Paradise for him as he is a Buffet fan. What a great time.

Captains Dwight, Mike and Cristina have been working towards their Coastal Florida Master Naturalist certification. They have been having a great time and even hosted a birding and wildlife cruise/field trip for the class. They did individual presentations on various coastal topics and then made an educational comedy movie as part of their final project. Please watch it here: Good Time Charters movie.

We have been seeing many dolphins and manatees on our Fort myers Beach boat tours so far this summer, and the birding has just been amazing! We have been spotting lots of Roseate Spoonbills, night herons, and reddish egrets. We are so fortunate to have such diversity in our wildlife here around Fort Myers Beach. Here is a pic, by Cristina, of some Roseate Spoonbills feeding and pruning, along with some egrets.

Captains Mike, Cristina, and Dwight are all currently taking the Universtiy of Florida  Master Florida Naturalist certification class and are having too much fun as usual. They were recently on a field trip to seine the grass flats at lover’s Key. The class was successful at sampling and caught seahorses, filefish,permit, whiting, and a plethora of other species. Here in the pictures is Capts Dwight and Mike dragging a seine and the other is of Judy Ott, a Department of Environmental Protection biologist who is also taking the class, with a little bit of Capt Cristina in there. Judy and Cristina used to work together for DEP, and would occasionally do sea grass monitoring together. They hadn’t seen each other in years and were like kids again identifying fish together.

Dolphins chasing our boat during our cruise yesterday. How fun! Here’s a video of it: dolphin video

Here’s a short video of a resident dolphin we have named Notch and her calf chasing our boat during a tour . To view click on this link: dolphin Tour Fort Myers Beach Good Time Charter

Season has slowed down a little bit but the dolphins have not. We have been still been seeing lots of manatees as well. We have also been seeing the roseate spoonbills, reddish egrets, and many anhingas around. The photo here is of a couple passengers on a recent cruise with us. They had front row seats to watch the dolphins jumping behind our boat!

Here are some photos submitted to us by the Bradshaw family who go on a fishing charter every year with Capt Mike. The boys in this family are such a hoot and Pete is such a gentleman and great fisherman. One photo is of Pete showing off his Mackeral that he landed and the other is of the rest of the gang with their signature fishing stance. They were a lot of fun. Pete and his mom also joined us for a Coastal Sealife and shelling cruise. We saw many dolphins and manatee, and found lots of sealife at the island.