Destin Fishing Reports

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I know I'm behind in writing but a lightning strike took out my internet connection. I believe if I ran my charter business the way MediaCom runs the cable service I would have been out of business years ago! I have run 15 out of the last 17 days. more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Too windy to stack BB's Or Fish!! Unemployed again today! Out of the last 2 weks I have only been able to run 4 days.The wind blew (and blew) from the East until T.S. Barry and since then has howled out of the West The paid prognosticators claim more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I'd rather be at work!! The fishing has been extremely good with some GREAT days on the water. The current weather forecast has east winds at 25 knots and a small craft advisory so I am unemployed for a couple days. Even with reels to rebuild and more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Great to be Here ! The water temp has made a slow steady climb since the freeze of mid April and is in the mid 70's. Just about perfect for all our finny friends and not to bad to jump into when it's 85 on the beach either ! The cobia run is more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Open The Gates After a rather slow start to this seasons annual cobia migration the flood gates have been opened. The past 5 days have had a good a show of the brown backed crab crunchers as could be asked for. Yesterday I ran a straight cobia more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - COLD & BLOWY Okay, who left the freezer door open? My calendar says it's spring and the fish had started what looked like a good spring run when the weather suddenly turned back to February. I finally got to run some cobia trips but the fish hav more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Right on Schedule The beach water temp hit 68 degrees 2 days ago and all of God's finny critters are reacting just the way we love 'em to. I have not had a chance to spend the day cobia fishing yet but have spent a little while looking after bot more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's Official !! Spring is Here !! The first cobia was caught last week with a few more hooked and lots of rumors of sighted fish. In acordance with time honored tradition among the coastal faithful this makes it offially spring! For those of you more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's the middle of February and what can you catch? Trout are closed up inshore, Red Snapper offshore and now starting this year Grouper are closed in federal waters Feb. 15th till March 15. Plenty of fins to chase and some pretty good dinners to t more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I'm Back! And with a new boat too! I have (finally) put the grinder up for the year and took the new boat out a few times this past week. The motors now have 20 hours on them and I ran my first charter on the new and improved Dead Fish yesterday more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin