Destin Fishing Reports

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's the middle of February and what can you catch? Trout are closed up inshore, Red Snapper offshore and now starting this year Grouper are closed in federal waters Feb. 15th till March 15. Plenty of fins to chase and some pretty good dinners to t more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I'm Back! And with a new boat too! I have (finally) put the grinder up for the year and took the new boat out a few times this past week. The motors now have 20 hours on them and I ran my first charter on the new and improved Dead Fish yesterday more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Thanksgiving week, I was booked all week but only got the last 3 days in. The first part of the week it was blowin' 25-30 out of the North and the last 3 days it has been Chamber of Commerce weather. Beautiful weather but only so -so catchin'. Sinc more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's fall and the opourtunities are endless, let the weather tell you where to fish- Snapper season finished out with great weather and perhaps the easiest catchin' of the year. lots of fish around and some good ones too! One of my folks caught a 1 more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - 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 w more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The water temp has already dropped a few degrees in the past 2 weeks and the fish are starting to notice. The groupers seem to be biting a lot better than the last time I wrote a report and the king bite is getting more consistent also. The specie more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I'ts Labor Day so I guess summer is officially over. Luckily for us the next 6 weeks are some of the best here in Seagrove--- The fish bite has been a little erratic. Todays board was GREAT- My 4 anglers tallied 13 Red Snapper, 4 Black Groupers, more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Back to Grayton! Ran my first trip off the beach today after 7 weeks of chasing Tarpon at Indian Pass. My Mom, daughter and new son in law anglers were first timers and the fist couple of big grouper bites caught 'em by surprise but they came through more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - A day off! Not planned but my folks had to cancel at the last minute so I'm putting it to good use getting all these chores done. Been fishing out of Indian Pass for 11 days now and the Tarpon are starting to get right. The season started out kinda more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - 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 t more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin