Fishing Reports by Capt. Alex Crawford

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Say hello to Bill, he’s a tropical kind of guy. Tropical storm Bill is blowin’ a gale in the Gulf and will hit LA by dark-thirty today. Bill packs 50 knot winds and will move toward ATL to dump some more precip on already water-logged folks. The g more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - What the hell is a vermilion? That’s the question one of my anglers asked this week, as he lifted one over the gunwale. Excellent question, here’s the answer and more. Webster defines vermilion as a bright red color. I define vermilion snapper a more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Mahi Mahi Mania. It all began innocently enough for the Skelton boys, Dad and two sons, from North Georgia. It was a routine customer request. The day’s primary objective was to run way, way afar and far, far away into the cobalt- blue of the Gulf more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Friends don’t let friends eat frozen fish. Can we talk? Or, schmooze fish matters? Calling all anglers who long for those little latitudes. I’ll tell you that 29 is a very good number, the forgotten coast latitude. It’s where the fish are and th more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - YOU CAN CATCH SEA CRITTERS NOW. And less than a league under the sea. If you are the compleat tangler, it is your special time to wet a line. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to get a reel feel and practice the fine art of fillet and r more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Record Levels of Freshwater. Due to all of the rainfall these past two weeks, the Apalachicola River has been at record flood levels. The Chattahoochee/Flint system is dumping huge volumes of freshwater downstream through the Apalachicola. The Apa more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Official Fish Survey Results Have Been Tabulated. After an exhaustive survey of a large sampling of fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, the final results are published. Survey questions included fish opinions on current issues of great concern. Fish wei more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Confessions of a fishaholic. Have you ever been to a dinner party or a restaurant with a buffet line and noticed the behavior of seriously overweight folks? Adjectives that would describe their actions are giddy, euphoric, exhilarated, stimulated e more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - From my cold dead hands will they have to pry my favorite grouper rod. I think I’ve died and gone to grouper heaven. The gags, red and scamp groupers are here, where are you? Grouper are acting unconscionably right now on the Panhandle coast of th more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - SUMMER ON SAINT GEORGE …………COME AND COAST AWHILE So many fish, so little time! Piscatorial pursuits on the sun-drenched forgotten coast are just what the doctor ordered. World class angling opportunities abound right here, right now in this natur more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle