Fishing Reports by Capt. Larry Pentel

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The weather has settled into what can only be described as perfect. Light offshores in the AM and a seabreeze in the PM to keep the temperature feeling just right. And the water is as clear as the air, just has a bit of blue/green tint to it. We were more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's almost June and we've got a bona-fide cold front blowin' through. It was 53 degrees this AM when I launched the boat and supposed to be even cooler tonight! Where is all this global warming at? The temperature doesn' really matter that much but more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - After having the wind blow almost all of last week this week has been a welcome change. The weather has gotten HOT and so has the fishing. The snappers are moving into the beach and seem to be in good numbers on every rock and wreck I check. Quite a more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's been a couple of weeks since I sat down and typed but I've been fishin' hard everyday and not much free time. Today I ran a 6 hour split trip. We bottom fished for a couple of hours with a good catch of snappers and one grouper. My folks had l more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The flood gates have opened. The cobias, spanish, bluefish, jacks, and bait are all coming down the bar. Natures oddities are mixed in too. I saw 3 ocean sunfish(headfish) and lots of turtles this past week while cobia hunting. I also saw more pompan more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Once again the wind is blowin' and the rain is pourin' so I'm writting a report. The weather this morning was perfect for cobia. High tide at noon, crystal clear water, SE wind and a 2-3 ft. swell. Unfortunately the fog was so thick you couldn't see more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It finally feels like spring this week. The temperatures been in the upper 70's all week and the phone has started ringing regularly with folks wanting to book dates. The fronts are still coming with some wind and surf tho just no cold air (thank you more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

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