Happy New Year
Capt. Larry Pentel
December 31, 2008
Destin - Saltwater Fishing Report
Happy New Year, I hope everybody had a great Christmas and the new year brings lots of opportunities to spend good times on the water.
After a period of rather rough, wet weather we have had a couple of beautiful days here in South Walton. I got to take a couple of Dads and 3 junior anglers out yesterday on a calm Gulf with lots of fish biting. It seems that the recent rough weather has moved the Gag Groupers back in. I think there were 10 boats launched off Grayton yesterday and everyone I talked to had at least a couple big fish. We got 6 to the surface ( ok, 5 and a 1/2, a bull shark ate grouper too) that were of a good grade and released quite few more. The kids caught a bunch of pink snappers and we found several good schools of triggers that were quite adept at stealing the kids baits.
Beach fishing the end of December
The day was so nice that there were folks actually swimming in the gulf while I was cleaning fish. I figure they had to be here on Christmas vacation from Minnesota-- A fantastic end to the year and from the number of groupers bites we had something good to look forward to in the New Year! It was slick calm all the way till sundown-
The almost last sunset of 2008 over Eastern Lake.
I'm off to Indian Pass to chase Redfish for a few days in 2009, back here in a week or so to get after the groupers again. I have about done all my off season boat and tackle projects so I get to fish a bit myself the next 2 months. Looking forward to another year on the Gulf!
capt Larry Pentel
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