Fishing Reports by Capt. Alex Crawford

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - KINGFISH BLITZ ON THE FORGOTTEN COAST Have you ever noticed that every year around October we experience a massive migration of monarch butterflies here on the Forgotten Coast. Without fail, concurrently, the fall migration of smoker king mackerel more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Groupies of the finest kind. Red groupers are one of the most beautiful fish in the sea. With their gorgeous red skin and vivid white spots, these finny critters are very tropical looking. And we commonly target these beauties in the Gulf, particu more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Short and sweet for a change. Have had trips every day this past week and I’m just bone tired. So, we’ll break from the normal wordy reports to an abbreviated version. Anyone looking for a new profession that requires daily manual labor, pulling a more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Get wrecked for spectacular summer snappers. It is a sure-fire slam dunk during the hot months for red and gray snappers, with some lanes and vermilions as a bonus. This technique is so simple and straight forward, it is surprising more anglers don more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - “We like to eat red snappers!” Those were the very first words spoken, as the party of five serious anglers from Douglasville, GA stepped onboard Topknots for an offshore fishing trip into the wild blue yonder. Immediately locking onto the gentlema more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Grilled Grouper, yum-yum! That’s exactly what my party from Allbeanie, Gaagha said yesterday. They only had a few hours to fish, so we cranked it up a notch, put the nose in the wind and set a bearing into the deep blue. Sea conditions were smooth more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Saltwater panfishing is just plain fun. Yesterday, 4 teenagers from suburban Atlanta joined me for a day of panfishing fun on the Forgotten Coast. Or, should I say more specifically, the Apalachicola Bay. The bay is finally getting back to normal more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Hotter than the hinges of Hades. At daylight, the ambient air temperature is 80 degrees. By 10AM, it is 90 and rising steadily. Really don’t know how hot the hinges are in Hades, but summertime on the Forgotten Coast must be comparable. Only thin more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Say hello to Bill, he’s a tropical kind of guy. Tropical storm Bill is blowin’ a gale in the Gulf and will hit LA by dark-thirty today. Bill packs 50 knot winds and will move toward ATL to dump some more precip on already water-logged folks. The g more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - What the hell is a vermilion? That’s the question one of my anglers asked this week, as he lifted one over the gunwale. Excellent question, here’s the answer and more. Webster defines vermilion as a bright red color. I define vermilion snapper a more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle