Fishing Reports by Capt. James Pic

Gusty winds bring spanish, spinners and flounder. - For those of you that don't know, the wind has been blowing 20mph for the last four days with gusts up to 30. Luckily it's been a NE wind giving my clients many opportunities to catch fish. This is when I'm happy to run a big roomy 22' modified tun more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Couple of Chicago "gangsta" fishermen come to Panama - As we hit the one of the redfish holes again this morning you could see the fish scatter. Just after we laid both baits onto the flat a big school of reds, pushing a large wake, came into the zone. A big red picked up the first bait and immediately more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Panama City triplets/Hobie Sunglasses - Left the dock at early thirty with Judd, Tom and Chandler. Guess what they wanted to catch? Same as everyone else. As we eased into the first spot, startled and spooked reds left wakes everywhere. We loaded up the 8# rods with the big ly's I've b more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Redfish still on the prowl, trout bite on the wane with the moon - The number two ninja wanted to get in on some of the action the full moon has brought so we headed to West Bay yesterday. The wind had changed to a cool brisk NE changing conditions and keeping the bait down. We managed to get some big LY's after a more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Keith Tate and the Ninja - Keith Tate wanted to catch a red and I was happy to oblige. After fly fishing for reds for an hour we soaked some live baits and Keith quickly hooked up with a nice fish. Good job. Normally the Ninja drives the boat and doesn't fish but today was more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Take a brother fishing....or give a fly fishing lesson. - Sometimes it's just easier to put up the pictures, worth a thousand words and all that mumbo jumbo. Nobody ever got tired of catching giant trout and reds...or looking at them. Took my brother Jeff and nephew Jared fishing this morning. We consi more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Panama City Florida Trout and Redfish "Dream Trip" - Yesterday was good...sorry no pics...today...was great! No one can do what I do...that simple. Left at early-thirty heading for the ly hole. First stop, a trout spot that normally produces, was a dry hole. Loaded up and headed for the place we more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Big trout on the move - Hit a bunch of trout holes up in West Bay today. Absolutely the best trout day so far this year. Started out with DOA on popping corks and then picked up some menhaden. We hit several spots befor taking a 25 1/2 fish that was fat and weighed a lot more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Specks, reds, spanish, blues, flounder and grouper. - To say this week wasn't interesting... we had a lot of action. There are a lot of fish and a lot of big fish in the bay now. Some days more than others. Seems like all spring we have been battling fresh water run-off, tanic water and wind. The wat more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Panama City Florida East Bay April 28, 2009 - Tom Chandler, from Huntsville, came down to fish with me today. We headed to East Bay again because the fishing was so good there yesterday. Putting my knowledge of the bay and skills to the test we hit some early morning spots immediately puttin more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City