Mangrove snapper make excellent candidates for good eats! Snapper will readily eat a shrimp as a bait, are a lot of fun to catch, and provide tasty sweet fillets. They are a great target fish here in the Everglades and Chokoloskee for children and those who want to keep busy reeling in fish on almost every cast, and for everyone on those super windy days that keep you pressed up against the mangroves for shelter while fishing.
Tripletail are considered by most as the best eating fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Here in Chokoloskee and the Everglades City areas of southwest Florida, we find them hanging out on the water surface floating on their side, usually near a marker, crab trap buoy, or some other object floating on the surface of the water. Late winter is a good time to target these guys on our charters while fishing the Ten Thousand Islands of the Everglades National Park, FL.
Speckled Sea Trout are one of our premiere targets here in the shallow grass flats of the Everglades National Park. Not only are they fantastic table fare, but they make an awesome topwater fighter! When we hook them on light spinning tackle on our fishing charters here in Chokoloskee and Everglades CIty, they almost always immediately identify themselves as they come up thrashing and shaking their head on the surface of the water.  |
Pompano are actually one of my favorite fish to eat that we catch here out of Chokoloskee and Everglades City areas of the Everglades National Park. We enjoy fishing for them on my charters when the Pompano are around in the winter season. Read More |
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Shark are here in the Everglades National Park year round, but always peak in the hot summer months. We exclusively use light tackle spin gear on our fishing charters for shark. It is a blast hooking up with these toothy monsters in the shallow Gulf areas of Everglades City, Chokoloskee and the Everglades National Park. We typically catch Bull, Nurse, Spinner, Bonnethead, Hammerhead, Black tip, Lemon, & Sharpnose Sharks. |
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Redfish are another prime target for us while fishing the flats of Chokoloskee, Everglades City, and the Everglades National Park using light spin tackle. What a thrill it is to get into a school of feeding Reds using all kinds of bait, including live, natural, and artificials. We catch them on our charters anywhere from the rivers to the island oyster bars here in the Ten Thousand Islands. |
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Snook are Captain Rapps' favorite fish to catch here in the 10000 islands. They are highly elusive and seem to be the #1 frustration of most casual anglers. The prestige of catching a large Snook, in my mind, matches that of landing a large Tarpon. On our charters, we target them all year long in Chokoloskee and the Everglades city ares of the Everglades National Park, typically in the thick mangrove lined creeks and bays most of the year, and the shallow outside shorelines in the summer. |
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Tarpon are the most sought after and extreme sport fish in the shallow waters of the Gulf and Atlantic. I guide Tarpon Specific charters during the months of April, May, & June at the Bahia Honda State Park Bridge area of Big Pine Key, FL. These acrobatic sport fish average 80 - 150 lbs where we fish for them in the Florida Keys, just southwest of Marathon and north east of Key West. We leave from the Bahia Honda State Park and start fishing for Giant Tarpon within 10 minutes. |
This past week has been another productive one. The wind blew real hard the middle of the week which effected the size of our catch some, but the catch quantities remained solid. The beginning of the week we had winter jackets on in the morning, but by the end of the week we came close to breaking record high temps. Van and Reid hit some more monster Snook and big Reds, The Souci's got into lots of Reds, Trout, and a good amount of other fun fish. The Haege group caught a lot of Snook, Black Drum, Rat Reds, Sheepshead, Trout and many others. The Wicklunds got into a bunch of BIG Reds and BIG Trout on Friday. Capt Brandon and Capt Bob also put the Jeck crew and Roselle crew into some fantastic fishing and brought back a lot of Reds, Sheepshead, and Black Drum.
The below photos were all taken this past week
Just to the south of Marco Island, and Naples, Florida is one of the last remote Redfish, Tarpon, Snook, & Salt Water Trout fishing and backwater exploring outposts in our country. Chokoloskee is a small island located just to the south side of Everglades City, FL. It is tucked away in the Ten Thousand island area of the Everglades National Park, Florida.
From the moment we leave the dock and you begin your professionally guided charter with Captain Pete Rapps or any of his first class captains, and begin to travel through a mezmerizing maze of red, black, and white mangroves, you will immediately feel the stress leaving your body. You will be reassured and rewarded with complete confidence that you have made the right choice in selecting Captain Rapps Charters, as we flawlessly navigate through an incredible labyrinth of mangrove lined rivers and shallow water oyster bars. You have begun a real adventure in the Everglades National Park to a very special back county experience that few people will ever know or see.
Everyone is welcome from male to female, children to seniors, and novice to experienced anglers. We are in the Everglades National Park and have access to many campsites that have port a johns, so restrooms are typically within a short distance from where we fish. I will custom design your outing to fit your individual needs.
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In just a 45 minute drive from Marco Island and Naples, and just 90 minutes from other South Florida cities like Ft Myers, Miami & Ft. Lauderdale, you are in Everglades City, Chokoloskee Island, and the 10,000 Islands of the Everglades National Park.
Thank you for visiting Captain Rapps! These are the services and areas we offer them in: Chokoloskee Fishing Charters, Everglades City Fishing Charters. In Southwest Florida we offer: 10000 Islands Fishing Charters, Marco Island Fishing Charters, Everglades Fishing Charters, Chokoloskee Fishing Guides, Everglades City Fishing Guides, 10000 island fishing guides, Marco Island fishing guides, and Everglades Fishing Guides. In the Collier County area we offer: Naples Fishing Charters, Naples Fishing Guides, and saltwater fishing charters. In the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean we offer Saltwater Fishing Charters, Keys Tarpon Fishing Charters, Keys Tarpon Fishing Guides, Big Pine Key Tarpon Fishing Charters, and Big Pine Key Tarpon Fishing Guides. And in the Florida Keys we offer: Marathon Tarpon Fishing Charters, Marathon Tarpon Fishing Guides, Key West Tarpon Fishing Charters, and Key West Tarpon Fishing Guides. In the spring we offer Bahia Honda Tarpon Fishing Charters, with our Bahia Honda Tarpon Fishing Guides.Thank you again and please visit our site for more info!
