Destin Fishing Reports

Destin Reds - Went out early looking for trout on the flats and couldn't get anything to bite so we changed gears and headed for big reds around the east pass. Our first four drops produced hookups but each one broke off. The next three bites we were able to put more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin

Destin Trout and Reds - Friday 5/15 We caught some nice trout on the grass beds, two that were just over 23 and one 18. Caught them on menhaden under a popping cork. For the rest of the day we targeted reds and ended up catching a dozen, 2 underslot, 2 overslot, and more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin

Kings Make a Full Boat - Whew, after the worst spring weather wise I can recall we are finally coming into summer. The water is turning that beautiful Emerald Green again and while it hasn't been slick calm we have had a lot of very fishable weather. The cobia run kinda go more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Bull reds at the destin bridge - Sunday May 3rd on an incoming tide the day before the split, neap tide we tore up the redfish all bulls. It is what I call c.p.r. fishing catch, photograph and release. Also right out front in the gulf the king and spanish mackerel were chewing we c more...
Capt. Brian Keith - Destin

King mackerel are savage outside destin's east pass - Live bait trolling the last two days starting april 28th, outside destin's east pass very productive alot of 10 to 12 pound kings some in the 18 to 20 lb class. Also nice spanish mixed in with them 3 to 5 lb class. Using cigar minows and herring has more...
Capt. Brian Keith - Destin

Better Weather - While we still are no where near Chamber of Commerce weather the patterns are making changes for the better. There have been a couple stretches of nice days where we have been able to get off the beach and harass all those finny critters. The cobi more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Finally Fishin' - We finally have had a break in all this weather the past week. Still more rough days than I would like but there were a couple of just beautiful ones and a couple more that while rough were very fish-able. I got to run a couple bottom trips on the more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Hang On Boys, It's Gonna Blow ! - And Blow, and Blow. I know it's Spring and the natural order of things has it blustery some days but this is getting old. The fronts keep coming and the surf stays up. It's been a good year to be skinny guy with a surfboard! While we have had some be more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Can't Fight the Weather - Whoeever said you can't fight Mother Nature lied- You can always fight but when you lose to her it's never pretty! The weather pattern has had the fronts coming so fast that we can't get a break from having to fight some part of nature to go fish more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Fun Little Reds - Took a couple trips last week and found evertyhing small. Caught 30+ little reds both trips, which was fun for the kids on board. We caught one nice 20 trout on the first trip of the week on a skitterwalk topwater. Fished in the Grass Flats more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin