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

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Northwest Florida in September. Just another day in paradise. The weather is great, hot but not sweltering. Clear high skies, no lines at the grocery and the beach is back to us locals, even on the weekends. Fishin' aint bad either. There are still more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Panhandle Fishing Report - Pensacola Bay & Choctawhatchee Bay - Finally a 30 day stretch without a Hurricane and then the BIG ONE; Katrina! Our prayers of relief to all the many, many people that have been affected by the storm go out each and every day, May Gods blessing for a rapid recovery be with you! Th more...
Capt. Eddie Woodall - Pensacola

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Back in Seagrove and back looking at yet another hurricane!! Katrina now looks like she is going to give the folks in La. a headache but yesterday AM the weather gurus had her aimed here so I canceled fishing for the weekend. Oh well, I'd rather miss more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - WHO NAMES THESE STORMS ANYWAY? Katrina enters the Gulf of Mexico as we speak. Guess the weather service does not mind personalizing these storms and hurricanes. But I say just put numbers on them. I have good friends like Charlie, Frances, Je more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Florida Fishing Report for Panama City & Destin - Panama City, NW Florida Not much has changed with the trout and reds since my last report. When we target reds we are catching at least six or seven each time.....we also continue to catch a lot of big trout. I had a single, John Dodrill about a more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - As I've said before-the tarpon like it hot, dry and,calm-not exactly the weather we've been having. After getting over Dennis and then the surf from Emily the fish did what they were supposed to and ganged back up on the beach in the pogies. We had more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - FRIGATE BIRDS OFF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE Yes, you read it correctly. After hurricane dennis (refuse to honor his name with a capital d) blew his mighty fury onto the fabulous Forgotten Coast, I sighted several frigate birds flying inshore and offsh more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Panhandle Fishing Report - Pensacola Bay & Choctawhatchee Bay - First, I’ll apologize for the delay in the fishing report. I’m still without a home phone line, thanks to Dennis. I’m copying this to a disc and loading it at the public library. How can anyone expect to get any fishing done with all these storms b more...
Capt. Eddie Woodall - Pensacola

Florida Fishing Report for Panama City & Destin - Panama City/Florida Panhandle The fishing remains superb for the year. Despite that hot weather and the rain I can honestly say that I can't remember when the bay fishing has been so good. If your just looking for a good pull, topwater for blue more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Hoo Boy! what a july--the storms seem like they just keep coming! After cleaning up and rebuilding from Dennis I finally got to start running trips at Indian Pass this past Monday. Ran a 1/2 day shark trip with a father son crew. Caught a bunch of more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin