Fishing Reports by Capt. John Rivers

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Redfish and Trout on light tackle! Fish on! It’s pulling drag-- must be a Redfish. Redfish and trout have been on the menu for the past few days. We’ve stayed in the bay looking for fish, as the gulf has been a bit rough this past week. The whi more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Red Fishing in December! December is here and the big reds that we’ve been catching all November long are still around. The weather is still very nice, even getting up into the upper 60’s and 70’s on some days. You gotta love Florida. I’ve been more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Hooked-up with Monster Redfish! “Fish on!” said Joe for the third time today. We had only been fishing for maybe twenty minutes, and Joe had already brought in two nice bull redfish. Corby was still fighting his fish that had taken his rod to th more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - 1 fish, 2 fish, 3 fish, redfish! We stopped counting when we hit 20, yes, 20+ slot reds on Friday! 1 fish, 2 fish, 3 fish, redfish! We stopped counting when we hit 20, yes, 20+ slot reds on Friday! I took out Doug and his son, Max who usually fi more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Fall has arrived and the fishing has been great! Kings in the bay, trout on the flats, or black snapper in the pass? Take your pick, because it’s going to be a great week of fishing in Pensacola. Although we have had a lot of rain this past week more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Light tackel action is always fun ! Black snapper on light tackle is the hot ticket this week in Pensacola along the rock jetties in the pass and on few of the bridges in the area. Most of the fish are in the 14 – 16” range, but a few are toppin more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Milder Temperatures means great fishing October has arrived in style with slightly milder temperatures. Red fishing in the bay has really picked up the past few days, with most of the fish hanging around depths of 4 –6 ft near drop-offs or deepe more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Cooler temperatures and good fishing September 20, 2007 Fishing this week along the panhandle has been very good for trout, which have been found up and down the ICW on the flats. The water has started to cool, and that has helped the bite. more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Redfish and Black snapper on the rock jetties Fishing the past week has been great for Black snapper and slot redfish. The speck bite in the wee morning hours has been pretty good also. Most of the Black Snapper have been caught using live shrim more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Pensacola, Navarre & Perdido Key - Hard Fighting Reds and Jacks With temperatures still in the upper to middle 90’s and the heat index over 100 the past two weeks, the fishing has been tough for sure. I have been hitting the water at 5am to 5:30am and I’m off the water by at leas more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola