Fishing Reports by Capt. Larry Pentel

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's March and everyones thoughts are turning to cobia season. On a sunny day in the next couple of weeks the first cobia of 2002 will be caught just off the sandbar. For the next 6 weeks every pretty day ( and a lot of nasty ones) will have folks st more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I can't believe it's been over a month since I wrote a report. It's that time of the year tho, I've probably only fished as much this past month as I usually do in a week -10 days. I've spent most of the time working on the new fish camp but did ge more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - BBRRRRR!!! Boy it's cold! We came back from vacation in the bahamas to find somebody had left the freezer door open. I had trips lined up all this week but the weather has been too raw to want to run most of 'em. Tomorrow looks like it might be sunny more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - After taking everybody else fishing all year on their vacations I get to take mine starting tomorrow. My family and I are going to the Bahamas to chase bonefish and lobsters and avoid this cold front the weather man says is coming. I know, lots of more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's definately winter in Florida the way the weather has gotten so eratic and the bookings have slowed down. Luckily the fishing has been staying from pretty good to down right fantastic. I ran a father son trip the day before Thanksgiving. It was more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The wind finally started blowing out of the NE Tuesday after a week of some of the best weather November has ever offered. I ran several gulf trips last week where the Gulf looked like a millpond. One female angler was even commenting on how shw woul more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Recreational Red Snapper season ended last week and the anglers on the Dead Fish made sure it went out with a bang. We had limit catches on almost every trip for the last two weeks including the 4 hours. I hated leaving the triggers alone a couple of more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - We finally have gotten some pretty weather. It blew so hard all last week I did not even think about trying to charge somebody to go out in the Gulf. For that matter you couldn't have paid me enough to take you a couple of days. This week has been a more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - For all those that have spent good times at our fish camp in Indian Pass I have some drastic news. It is no more ! I had it bulldozed down about 10 days ago. The good news is there is a 60 year old house I bought in Tallahassee and had moved sitting more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's official, fall has definately started. The way to tell for sure here is when the trigger fish show up on the inshore spots. This past week they showed up so thick that the water looked like gumbo under the boat. Tuesday morning I didn't have a t more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin