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

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - The Hunt for the Reds of December. Sitting on the quay warming the pines this time of year is not an option. Ya just gotta get in the game. That is exactly what Mr. B.R. and family from Ocala wanted this past week. They booked me for three inshor more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - A NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION Ring in the new year with a celebration. First, celebrate and toast to the pure, unadulterated joy of just being alive. Then, celebrate by taking time out to plan an offshore adventure into the beautiful Gulf of Mexico more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's that time of year of again. More fish than folks who want to chase 'em and the pretty days are never on the weekends. I cancelled todays trip with a forecast of 20 knot winds from the SE and rain by lunch, looks like Monday will be the next nice more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Florida Fishing Report for Panama City & Destin - Panama City/Florida Panhandle Offshore, snapper is closed except for catch and release. Grouper are abundant on many of the wrecks when you can find a nice day to get out. Everything else has pretty much migrated out of the area. Most of the p more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

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

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Too rough to fish so I guess I'll try to make my old English teacher proud by trying to spell. The weather has been going from one extreme to the other. The weather service has a small craft advisory out for today and tommorrow with winds at 30 knots more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

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

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Winter has arrived! It's blowin' 25 knots from the NE and 47 degrees outside. I slept in till almost 7 AM and am scared to see what the Gulf looks like a mile out- The fish knew this was coming as they have bit real well the past week. I fished her more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

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

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Snapper season has ended for '03 and we went out with great limit of fine fish on the last day. If 2004 is near as good as this past year it will be a fine one. Still lots of fish to catch without having to harrass the snappers. This morning I ran more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin