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

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - AMBERJACKS--- BULLIES OF THE GULF Vivid memories remain from twenty years ago, when I was painfully introduced to a monster amberjack. Until then, my angling experiences were limited to small AJs in the teens. Indelibly burned into my angling mem more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Florida Fishing Report for Panama City & Destin - Panama City/Northwest Florida Snapper season closes at the end of October which will slow down the offshore fishing. Grouper will be caught all through the winter if you can brave the cold winds and high seas that come with this time of year. Ma more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - SPECK SPECTACULAR!!! The spotted seatrout fishing in the Apalachicola Bay right now is, in a word, spectacular. Yesterday, my party scored a limit in only an hour of fishing. The combination of awesome weather and a wide open fish bite makes Octob more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Definately Fall. The wind has been blowin' keeping us fishin' close to the beach most days. No problem tho, the baits been thick and lots of predator fish in close too. This morning started out slick with acres of bait on the surface just past the more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Blowin’ and rainin’ on football Saturday. Some guides take their customers fishing on days like today, but not this one. It is Saturday morning and the wind is SE at 15 knots, seas are 3 to 5 and my Doppler radar shows storm cells across the entire more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Florida Fishing Report for Panama City & Destin - Panama City/Florida Panhandle Fishing this time of year is great. Fly fishing especially. We have been catching huge numbers of bonitat (little tunny) off the beach along with monster spanish. All you have to do is look for the birds working more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Adios Red Tide. For the past couple of weeks we have had an algae bloom move into the Apalachicola Bay. It is called Red Tide. It affects people with respiratory issues and fish, primarily inshore bottom species like catfish and croakers. Pelagic more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Fall has arrived this morning. The cold front that came in yesterday actually has it cool this morning. The hard North wind has me glad to have a day off. Holding the boat up into the wind is a tough job when it's blowin' 25 knots. Just means the fal more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Isabel was a shameless hussy. Eastern North Carolina residents have had to endure eight storms in the past five years. Virginia residents from Virginia Beach to suburban D.C. got a healthy dose of fallen trees, flooding and power outages. Here on more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The weather has been wonderful the past few days with the forecast sounding like a chamber of commerce ad for the next week. It's a shame it took till fall to get to summer. Fishing has been great. We have still been limiting out on Snappers on eve more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin