Fishing Reports by Capt. Alex Crawford

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Groupers, groupers and more groupers!!! The most recent mild weather (i.e. low 70's, light and variable) has everyone turned on to the gag grouper bite. We're talking double digit quality fish here. Try going out Southwest from the West Pass about more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - This time of the year around the Apalachicola area, deer, ducks and dogs take precedence over gaggles of groupers. However, for the die-hard angler, this is the best of times. There are no boats out there playing bumper cars for a shot at just one more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - How cold is it? Well, it is just right if you are staying warm pumping and winding on hefty groupers. It is simply a function of dressing loose in layers and gettin' out there after em'. Forgive my colloquial jargon, as I'm a victim of my environm more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Due to the extremely mild fall and early winter weather, the kingfish and their little brothers, the spanish mackeral are still around the Apalachicola area. And they will continue to be here as long as the water temperature remains in the 68 degree more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Offshore of the panhandle coast of Florida, the water temperature fluctuates around the 70 degree mark. Old man winter is just around the corner, followed closely by Santa Claus who will be flying the American flag on his sleigh this year. Way offs more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - As they say on the outer banks of North Carolina, the wind, “she’s been blowin’ a gale.” For the past two weeks the inshore and offshore fishing has been tough, to say the least. Inshore, twenty knot winds began out of the southeast and have now tu more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Inshore, the water surface temperature has dropped into the low 80s in the St. George Sound and Apalachicola Bay. The sheepshead bite is picking up around the bridge pilings of the St. George and Apalachicola bridges. My next door neighbor brought more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Inshore, the water temperature has fallen to 84 degrees and the feeding switch has been turned on. The St. George Sound and Apalachicola Bay are literally chocked full of Lys and white shrimp and the redfish and speckled seatrout bite is wide open. more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Tropical storm Gabrielle and the tragedy our nation is enduring has caused this writer/captain to stay at the dock. However, last week was an extraordinary fishing time. We can always count on the unmistakable signal of fall, that refreshing chill more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Now that the huge volume of fresh water from tropical storm Barry has washed through the bay and blended with the salty waters of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, the inshore and offshore fishing has improved dramatically. Inshore, the speckled trout more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle