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Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore
Capt. Larry Pentel
October 16, 2006
Destin - Saltwater Fishing Report
I know I haven't sat down and written for a while but the weather has been fantastic and I've been runnin' everyday. Ther is a big low preassure moving in from Texas today that will probbaly shut down the fishing for the rest of the week. With what we have been fortunate to have for the past month I really can't complain.
The water temperature just dropped below 80 on the beach this week. The past few mornings were chilly at daylight and I actually had a jacket on. 'Course I'm still in shorts and flips and the jackets gone by 10AM. The falling water temps are making the fish do their thing and fishing is staedily getting better. The Red Snappers are biting much better than they had been and seem to ganging up again. With just 2 more weeks left in the season ( and this week a wash) I think the end of the season will go out with a bang. We have had limit snapper catches the past few days on the half day trips along with other species mixed in.
Yesterdays trip was 2 folks on a half- kinda blowy and a little choppy with a NE wind. I stayed right on the beach and never went more than 2 miles offshore to stay in the lee-- Even with the weather restricions we filled the box. Stopped on a couple snapper spots and got 'em their limit of reds and a fine Black grouper. One felllow starts asking about Kings so we do that for a while and put 2 Kings, 2 big Spanish and 2 Bobos in the box. Talk of groupers again so I change gears and run to some craigy bottom where they live- Groupers 7- Anglers 0. Talk of Triggers- OK new spot- 6 triggers in the box ( coupla nice 'un's too!) One last stop on a grouper spot- Groupers 3, Anglers 0- and we are headed back to the truck to be in at noon-. I love beach launch fishin'- where else can you target so many different species on a 4 hour trip ? And the view on the beach aint bad either when we come in !
The triggers are just staring to show and haven't really ganged up yet. I imagine that the first week of Nov. will be the time to make that "freezer trip" for winter. As good to eat as all these critters are nothing tastes as good after 4 months in the freezer as a trig. If you vacuum seal 'em I swear they still taste "fresh" in Feb.Another good "freezer trip" (tip?) are the kings. They will probably be real thick after this blow. Now everybody knows that a fresh king is great but you can't freeze 'em, right ? HOWEVER, (this is trade secret from a redneck that owned a fish house for years) If you smoke up a bunch of fresh kings and then vacuum pack and freeze 'em you got something worth having. Our old trick was to put up a bunch in Nov. and then pull it out at Christmass and New Years to make salads, spreads and dip. We have had some great feasts with food everybody raved about. Most folks had no idea they were eating frozen macks--
I plan on going over to Indian Pass for a couple weeks the 1st part of Nov. to sight fish red fish and bail speckled trout. After that I'm commmitrd ( or maybe some one should have me commited !) to yet another boat project this winter . I have another 20' cat hull I plan on doing some MAJOR modifications to and hope to be done by spring to have a new boat to run next season.
I think by the time I'm done it could be a TV show- "The 6 Million Dollar Boat"- but I'm hopefull it will be even better, run faster jump, higher etc.....
I guess it helps keep me out of the pool halls----
The next 6 weeks are usually the "easiest" catchin' of the year. Get off the couch and go!!!!! Even if it's just to the bridge to get a trout before work, come jan. you 'll be wishin' you had gone----
capt Larry Pentel
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