I am going to port Charlotte on the 5th till 15 wanna try fly rod down there anyone ever do it and if so what is good to use any help would be great thanks sean

There are a variety of things you can do ... although some of them most likely won't include Port Charlotte exactly, but the greater area which includes Pine Island/Bokeelia, the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico either just below the Englewood area and a little south down around Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island and down toward Sanibel.

Your best bet is to pack the gear and then visit a local tackle shop, they should be able to help you out.

But based on some older history of experience from the 1990s, and even in the early 2000s ... things may have changed but ... on the ocean front beaches, there are some good fish to be had, snook in the wash (very wary) ... also any inlet on the ocean from the beaches will have lots of activity for a variety of fish ... snook, possibly some tarpon, etc.

In the neighborhood canals up in the Port Charlotte area, there may be baby tarpon rolling around.

Down around the gateway to the Sanibel Causeway, off Sumerlin Road, is John Morris Road which leads out to Bunche Beach ... you will know it as there is a hotel at the intersection La Quinta now ... years ago, we used to find tailing redfish on the beach at the low incoming tide (in the early mornings and evenings when no one was around).

Up on Pine Island, in the Bokeelia area, we also used to wade some flats off the northern tip of Pine Island and caught a few sea trout and redfish (that was in the early 1990s - a lot could have changed).

In the Punta Gorda area, there are some communities my buddy used to take us to ... that had baby tarpon in all the canals, and you could easily park and fish without too much trouble ... it will likely take some exploring (and I don't remember the name of the communities) ... but we found them and in the early mornings and evenings they would eat.

A lot of these areas may be blocked off to outsiders now, but we had pretty open access then.

Not sure whether any of this will be valid today. But hope it helps. You could also hire a guide ... they can help you the most, if you have the cash.

Two words ... BOCA GRANDE
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The one thing you have to consider is that, it's not like going to a small country pond where there will be no crowds or challenges ... it doesn't mean you can't find good fishing easily ... but you have to be strategic ... even when I started fishing there in the late 1980s and lived there in the early and late 1990s to the early 2000s, the crowds exploded and the fishing changed.

It's still great today ... but night hours in the inlets leading out to the Gulf will be a good time, low light hours on any shallow water area still holds true.

Going to Boca Grande Pass is like heading to the Canal on Memorial Day multiplied by 1000 ... it's a circus ... you can fish it from shore, but it's really a boat fishery and there are several ways to fish it ...

.... drifting and dropping down deep for tarpon along with the masses, this is where you will find the bigger sportfishing vessels along with center consoles and skiffs all drifting along ...

... or working the edges for strings of tarpon either going in or out of the pass ...

... either along Johnson Shoals on the south side of the pass off the north tip of Cayo Costa (if you can get a ferry out there, that is a beautiful place, but you will probably have to work down through Sanibel to get there - but a good spot) ...

... or you can fish the northern side of the pass along the beaches of Gasparilla Island (the island that the town of Boca Grande is on and border Boca Grande Pass) ...

... flats skiffs for fly fishing ... we nailed a lot of fish over the years in both locations ... and now guys have rigged towers on their center consoles to spot strings of tarpon moving up the beaches and they throw live mullet and other bait to catch them typically on spinning gear.

Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor have a number of spots inside that tarpon can be found, they are much more secret and typically accessible by boat ... with the exception of passes, but you are better off fishing the passes at night with darters like the Tactical Angler darters

Or hire a guide ... Mike Rehr off Sanibel is a great one ... if you want to go a little north, Rick Grasset is Sarasota is awesome or you can book a kayak trip with Steve Gibson up in the Sarasota area as well. If Capt. Mike is booked, he can lead you to a qualified guide ... be careful down there as there are a lot of hacks ... we once flew down a day too early and needed to find a guide, he was no where nearly qualified and I would have been better of fishing in the pool at my hotel ... the next days with Capt. Mike were a world of difference because he knows. his stuff ... and we caught fish, lots of them.