Carrabelle Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Hunters don’t know what they are missing. The modus operandi for all the hurried hunters is just that, hurry up and wait. Waiting for whitetails, gaggles of geese, dozens of ducks, a plethora of pigs or just one spectacular Sambar, can be an impati more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - The lyric goes,” the winds of November remembered.” Last night, hurricane West winds were 42 knots straightline at my dock. And I use the word hurricane advisedly. Really thought my boat was going to fly down the channel with the bimini acting as more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Fall on the Gulf Coast is special. The summer crowds are gone, the beaches are deserted, the big fish are biting and all is well in the world. Just like clock work every year, the first cold snap of Fall weather intrinsically tells fish that it is more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - SAINT GEORGE ISLAND- FLORIDA’S FISHING WINTER WONDERLAND It is one of the very best kept secrets of fishing on Florida’s coastline. The waters of the Forgotten Coast off Saint George Island continue to be an abundant winter fishery for all the more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - The Fall Kingfish blitz is on! My last trip scored 9 to 31 pounds. If you are an angler that really gets your kicks from the feel of a sizzling drag, now is your special time and torpedo Kings are the game. The first run of a bruiser King Macker more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - When Mother Nature gives you only lemons, you make your very best lemonade. Weather, weather and more weather!!! We just thought we had escaped the storm season, until Isidore and then, right on her heels, Lili. Except for 15 to 20 knot East/South more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Isidore, what kind of name is that? Why don’t they name them with common appellations like Rachel, Jan, Glenda or Susan? I guess with so many named storms, one simply starts running out of names. Isadore was a shameless hussy. Now that she is more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - When the wind blows from the East, fishing is least. When it blows out of the East at 15 to 20 knots for several days, the Apalachicola Bay turns into chocolate milk with 3 foot rollers packed tight as sardines. Only place to escape is up in the Ri more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - As I write this, tropical storm Hanna is blowing a gale. She is pushing water over my dock in the Apalachicola Bay and spewing horizontal rain at a steady 25 knots. Offshore, seas right now are 10 feet, not a hospitable place for humans. The marin more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Inshore, trout are eating pinfish and pogies in the bay on the Northeast corner of the Cut. Try the last hour and a half before high tide. Nice bluefish are feeding outside of the Cut on the Southwest side of the jetties. A trace wire leader will more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle