Regional Fishing Reports for:
Panhandle and Big Bend (Suwannee to Pensacola)

Deep Freeze along the Panhandle of Florida!! - Happy New Year! What will 2010 bring to northwest Florida? Great fishing I hope. The first day of the new year brought cold temperatures and high winds so I was not able to get out on the water, and with forecasted temperatures as low as 19 degr more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Panama City Beach Bay Fishing - Sorry for the late report and I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The fishing here has been great, plenty of bull reds in the deeper water on live baits and the Redfish in shallow water have been very cooperative. The hot wate more...
Capt. Kyle Pitts - Panama City

Pensacola Beach, Navarre, Destin Inshore Fishing Report - Happy New Year! With this gorgeous weather we have had for the last ten days ---NOT--- really; all we've had has been torrential downpours with all kind of flooding going on. I've only been able to fish one day, that's right one more...
Capt. Eddie Woodall - Pensacola

Bitter Cold Morning - A guides life during the winter can be very tough. With cold weather and little business, most of us tend to do other things like hunt, or work a number of odd jobs. I was fortunate to get a few calls for trips over the christmas break and into the f more...
Capt. Brant Peacher - Pensacola

Destin Flounder and Redfish - The flounder bite has continued to stay strong for the past week. We have caught the majority of them on artificial lures but for the last couple trips we have used live bait. We've also been catching some redfish around the Destin East Pass using more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin

Hot at 55 Degrees - Back in SOWAL from visiting daughter and son-in law on the coast in Maine. To all those who witch about the cold here (including me)-I now see why all these northerners want to be on 30-A. When the edges of the bay are solid ice, the high temp for th more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

A lot of ducks in the area, fishing is good. - The duck hunting this year has been good. We have hunted all over the place, East Bay, West Bay, Choctaw Bay, Deerpoint and some other lakes. Some places are better than others but my customers have been happy having lot's of shots and taking many more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Christmas Redfish - Every year when the inshore water temperature cools in December, the Forgotten Coast becomes one of the best venues in the state to target giant bull reds. Packs of ravenous redfish are in a pre-spawn mode and they will eagerly take a properly prese more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Destin Flounder Fishing - With the calm weather recently we've been able to make a couple flounder trips about a mile out from the beach and the bite has been great. We were able to get 40 flounder, a bull red and a 13 lb gag grouper a few days ago. We were using light tack more...
Capt. Blake Nelson - Destin

Great Light Tackle Fishing in Pensacola - The weather along the Panhandle has been awful, rainy and windy; with temps flip flopping from warm to cold and back to warm again. If it's not too cold to get out and fish, it's too foggy! It's not even January, and I'm ready for spring already! more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola