Destin Fishing Reports

Warm Winter Days - They may have been few and far between so far this year but we are finally having some of those warm winter days that make living here so wonderful. Yesterday was sunny, light winds and a high temp in the mid 60's. I was fortunate enough to have more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

sheapshead are chewing - If you can brave the cold the sheapshead are starting to gang up inside destin east pass catching most of my fish on live shrimp some bigger fish on crabs more...
Capt. Brian Santos - Destin

Fishin' Between the Freezes - Boy has it been cold! I guess my trip to Maine was training for this winter here in sunny (but frigid) Florida! It has been below freezing every night for a week now. Pretty much unheard of to stay cold this long-- where is that global warming I keep more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Destin Flounder and Redfish - The flounder bite has continued to stay strong for the past week. We have caught the majority of them on artificial lures but for the last couple trips we have used live bait. We've also been catching some redfish around the Destin East Pass using more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin

Hot at 55 Degrees - Back in SOWAL from visiting daughter and son-in law on the coast in Maine. To all those who witch about the cold here (including me)-I now see why all these northerners want to be on 30-A. When the edges of the bay are solid ice, the high temp for th more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Destin Flounder Fishing - With the calm weather recently we've been able to make a couple flounder trips about a mile out from the beach and the bite has been great. We were able to get 40 flounder, a bull red and a 13 lb gag grouper a few days ago. We were using light tack more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin

More Fixin' than Fishin' - After one of the best runs of pretty weather in years (for months !) it has turned pretty nasty for a while. There have not been a lot of pretty, warm and calm days since my last report. It's either been cold and blowy or warm and rainy- or , like to more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

A Fishy Thanksgiving - The Thanksgiving holidays have come and gone but, boy, was it great week. The Gulf stayed calm up on the beach and while it was cool a couple days there were a few days with t-shirt weather. A few of our visitors were even swimming while I was cleani more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Destin Redfish and Speckled Trout - We've still been fishing primarily shallow water for the past couple of weeks but some deeper water around the bridges is starting to produce some nice fish as well. We caught these four redfish in deep water. The youngest one on board hooked u more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin

thanksgiving weekend trolling and reef fishing - We fished friday nov. 27th and founds king mackerel inshore around the bridge rubble and east of the rubble. Reef fishing produced red snapper,scamp grouper,red grouper and amberines a member of the jack family. And flounder around the outside of all more...
Capt. Brian Santos - Destin