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Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore
Capt. Larry Pentel
June 18, 2006
Destin - Saltwater Fishing Report
Our string of beautiful weather days finally came to an end with tropical storm Albertro. Nothing really happened here except the surf came up for three days making it to rough to fish. It never even rained!!! I had said the day before it got rough that I wouldn't mind missin' a couple days if it would rain a day. Even the dollar weeds are gasping and turning brown.
Had a couple of real pretty days since the storm but an East wind the past 2 days that had it rough enough to "not be fun". Hope to be back on the water tommorrow.
A storm always moves fish around. Sometimes it takes our fish and sends 'em elsewhere and sometimes it gives us more fish than we seem to be able to deal with. This storm seemed to be a mixed bag. On my first trip out this week I ran a 6 hour and went where I had been finding snappers. They seemed to have left the premises and found new abodes. We ended up with a great board of fish but I covered a lot of ground and fished some really good spots that we would catch one or two fish off of and then nada. We tallied our limit of Snapper (20) a Red Grouper, 3 gag Grouper, a King, a couple Triggers, a PILE of real nice B-Liners and way too many sharks.
The next day I ran the same folks on a 5 hour. Different target species and a different area to try. Started off by hitting a "honey hole" that always makes fine snappers- I think we got 2-. Time to rethink the plan and run a few miles. I love it when a plan cames together! First off the Kings were red hot. We boxed our limit of 10 and released ( some by accident) several more along with a Bonita. The groupers were hitting so fast you about had to hide the hook to bait it. Lots of shorts but some down right fine ones too. I went through an entire 25 pack of hooks we lost so many to the bottom. We even had to release several FINE Red Groupers as we allready had our limit in the box. We hung 6 nice gags along with our limit of reds, kings, a mahi,couple triggs, 10 snappers and 2 sharks for a magazine quality picture. Plus everybody had a tale of "the big one"- had a fine (10#) snapper right up to the boat that pulled off and another fellow had "Bubba" on -twice! that pulled off both times. A BIG boy and that solid glass grouper rod bent all the way over to the water with me yellin' at 'em to wind and him yellin' that he can't! He'll just get bigger and pull harder for the next guy that hooks 'em. Those folks were talkin' 'bout coming back in the fall beofre they were even off thebeach!
Might go back and fish that same area again tommorrow------ whattaya think ?
Only 10 more days of fishin' out of Grayton for me and I'm off to the "Pass". All those tarpons we saw during cobia season heading East should be about to show up out front of St. Vincents Island any day now. And I am still hearing some great triple tail stories-- can't wait-
So many fish- so many boats- so little time--
Capt Larry Pentel
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