Regional Fishing Reports for:
Panhandle and Big Bend (Suwannee to Pensacola)

Two young "Peaches" have a time with a variety of fish! - It was my pleasure to have two young ladies from N. Georgia on the boat this morning. Hannah and Josie along with dad, Scott, didn't want anything more than some light tackle action. Well...the fish didn't disappoint. We took many different specie more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

........And the king bite goes on. - Jason and Miles came back for round two this morning. It was sloppy and rough but we managed to put some nice kings in the boat slow trolling live cigs. Since it was so rough we stayed at the whistle bouy. Jack the bait man was out there anchored more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

The "quad-fecta" of a six hour trip. - Early, we chase reds and trout: Then we chase spanish and blues: Lot's of fun and lots of fish! more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Go "chumming"...catch a bunch of fish on custom rods. - Ran the first all chum trip today. If you have never experienced catching big spanish in a chum line, it's something you definitely want to try. I use 8 1/2 foot ML custom rods built on St. Croix blanks with oversized reels and eight pound line. more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

amberjack on spin tackle - Fishing has been real productive with this water temp rising everything is biting. A little disapointed with the size of red snapper in shallow water off destin alot of 2 to 3 pound fish a month ago there were all averaging 5 to 7 pounds. Jack fishin more...
Capt. Brian Keith - Destin

Weather can play a big part in the fishing...... - That old saying a bad day of fishihg is better than a good day in the office is probably more accurate than most people will ever know. A bad day of fishing can be a lot of different things. With me, a bad day is one or two good trout or reds wit more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Snappers and More Snappers! - The long awaited opening day of Red Snapper season finally came and I don't think anyone was disappointed. The fish are still everywhere and anyone who went out had a nice limit in the box pretty quick. Opening Morning and Yes the Gal Caught t more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Stormy weather trout. - A low developed in the gulf yesterday pushing squalls and pressure changes with it. It also pushed a lot of water into the bay giving the trout and reds more places to hide. The Nesmiths from Savannah braved the weather for a day of fishing that th more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Opening Day Snapper and Grouper - The Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper season opened on Monday. You could have not asked for a more perfect day, light southwest winds and 1-2 ft seas. Fished with the intention of catching grouper while filling our snapper limit along the way. We happened more...
Capt. Mike Falzone - Panama City

Carter and Richard catch a few in Panama City Florida - Headed out bright and early this morning with Carter, Richard and Dad. We headed to the redfish and trout hole picking up some bait along the way. Today was the first day in a while that we have had much of a breeze in the morning which was great, more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City