Carrabelle Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Groupers are shallow now. As I sit here at my word machine and start gushing prose, I hear the siren call of the groupers no more than 7 miles out in the Gulf. Since the water is now in the lower seventies offshore, the hungry groupers are moving i more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Watch Heidi Klum tonite. My most sincere apologies all around. My computer monitor crashed and it has taken me the better part of this millennium to persuade Mr. Dell that it will be in his best interests to do the right thing. He did and so all t more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - SHEEPSHEAD CATCHING—BEST ON THE GULF COAST One of the very best of the December best bets on the Gulf Coast out of Apalachicola is the scrappy and tasty sheepshead. Distinguished by its black vertical bands, many call it the convict fish. more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - AMBERJACKS--- BULLIES OF THE GULF Vivid memories remain from twenty years ago, when I was painfully introduced to a monster amberjack. Until then, my angling experiences were limited to small AJs in the teens. Indelibly burned into my angling mem more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - SPECK SPECTACULAR!!! The spotted seatrout fishing in the Apalachicola Bay right now is, in a word, spectacular. Yesterday, my party scored a limit in only an hour of fishing. The combination of awesome weather and a wide open fish bite makes Octob more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Blowin’ and rainin’ on football Saturday. Some guides take their customers fishing on days like today, but not this one. It is Saturday morning and the wind is SE at 15 knots, seas are 3 to 5 and my Doppler radar shows storm cells across the entire more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Adios Red Tide. For the past couple of weeks we have had an algae bloom move into the Apalachicola Bay. It is called Red Tide. It affects people with respiratory issues and fish, primarily inshore bottom species like catfish and croakers. Pelagic more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Isabel was a shameless hussy. Eastern North Carolina residents have had to endure eight storms in the past five years. Virginia residents from Virginia Beach to suburban D.C. got a healthy dose of fallen trees, flooding and power outages. Here on more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

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