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Venture Out
Venture Out offers fishing charters from shallow waters to deep sea, sunset and eco tours, water taxi and more.
They are located in Cape Harbour, in the building to the right of Rumrunners restaurant, behind Galati Yacht Sales.
You will also find a bar for refreshments, and the bait and tackle shop which has: kayak rentals, clothing, supplies, snacks, refreshments, and ice.
Cape Coral Florida fishing is some of the best fishing anywhere. Inshore, offshore, fishing is great here all year round.
We had never been fishing before and wanted to start out with flats fishing, also known as shallow water fishing.
We had to meet our captain at 8AM, sometimes you might leave later, depending on the tides and what type of fishing you want to do.
Bring snacks and drinks, sunscreen, sunglasses, and a hat. Your shoes will get a little wet, we wore sneakers or flip flops. The bathroom on board the boat is a bucket!
Captain Gary showed us how to cast, watch for the bobber to bounce, and when and how to reel in.
He took us about 15 minutes out and we fished in the Caloosahatchee River for ladyfish, which were plentiful. We kept some for bait, and released the rest.
We went further down the river to Sanibel and caught Spanish mackerel, bluefish, and sea trout.
We released the fish and then tried to catch smaller tarpon that had been seen earlier in the week, but no luck.
Captain Gary has found that real shrimp and plastic shrimp tends to work equally well as bait, but we tested each anyway, to see if the fish were biting one type of bait over the other.
We saw lots of dolphins and they probably scared the fish away, so we then headed up toward Pine Island and Merwin Key.
We caught some more ladyfish and I caught a puffer fish, pictured below.
Do you see the teeth on that thing?!
We were gone for 4 hours, but next time we'd like to try inshore fishing.
For that, you need figure it's about an hour out and you should plan on a 6 hour trip total.
Then maybe we'll tackle a fishing trip (tackle ........ get it?!) further out in deeper waters!
Find out in the video below what we catch as we fish over near the Sanibel Causeway, which is not too far from Cape Coral:
The guys at Venture Out are so helpful and friendly.
When booking a charter, ask for Captain Gary Jenkins, he's the best and I know you will have a great time fishing with him!
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