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Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore
Capt. Larry Pentel
May 16, 2005
Destin - Saltwater Fishing Report
Summer is finally here. The cool wet weather pattern we had this spring is a memory and I'm back to putting on the suncreen everyday. Calm in the morning, a seabreeze in the afternoon and a cooler of fish by the middle of the day, lifes good.
The cobia run is about over. Still a few hard cores looking for 'em but not many left migrating. Last Thursday I had one of those days you dream about. We stopped at a spot for "training" right off the beach and caught a couple snappers then on to a big rock. My three anglers ran slip leads down while I tried to coax a rather reluctant school of AJ's into feeding. Saw a big Black Snapper in with the jacks and got him to eat a free lined bait on top. Meanwhile my folks are catching a Red snapper about every 3rd bite so I'm staying put working on the jacks when suddenly there's 3 cobia swimming with 'em. I go to battle mode and we end up hooking all three. One was a little short that we released. One was about 30# that went in the box and we broke one off about 45#. Back to catchin' snappers and the box is starting to fill up. I look out and there's a wad of 4 cobia doing there thing right on top. Back to battle stations. One fish eats a jig, the others are a little picky but eventually I got 2 more of 'em to eat with a small hook and no leader. Keep one at 25#, one at 45# and let one go that was right at legal.Get the boat cleaned up, and do a quick snapper count- we've got our limit of 16 Red Snapper allready even in the middle of cobias. It's 10:30 and these folks have another hour and a half on a 4 hour trip. We run off to chase trigs with much success getting 14, 10 of which are big old suitcase size. AND a king that ate the fly pole and a nice Black Grouper on a slip lead.
A full box with lots of glory fish-. I never did get a legal jack to bite tho-
Capt Larry Pentel
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