Fishing Reports by Capt. Larry Pentel

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Definately Fall. The wind has been blowin' keeping us fishin' close to the beach most days. No problem tho, the baits been thick and lots of predator fish in close too. This morning started out slick with acres of bait on the surface just past the more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Fall has arrived this morning. The cold front that came in yesterday actually has it cool this morning. The hard North wind has me glad to have a day off. Holding the boat up into the wind is a tough job when it's blowin' 25 knots. Just means the fal more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The weather has been wonderful the past few days with the forecast sounding like a chamber of commerce ad for the next week. It's a shame it took till fall to get to summer. Fishing has been great. We have still been limiting out on Snappers on eve more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Back to beach launch fishing from Grayton and I've been pleasantly surprised. Usually August has the inshore fishing being a bit slow (dog days) but not this year. I've got to run 5 trips in the 10 days I've been back and we've limited out with sna more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I got back to Walton Co. yesterday evening after being at the Pass for 7 weeks. I had forgotten what traffic (and traffic lights) were. A trip to Destin today brought me rioght back to reality. This years Tarpon season never really came togethe more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - August has brought a lot more Tarpon to the Pass. Everyday for the past week the fish have gotten a little bit thicker with yesterday having a great show. I took my folks out and ran a 1/2 day shark trip with the bite being real hot first thing beh more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Sorry to be off line for so long but I've been at Indian Pass with no computer. July started out with too much bad weather to keep any fisherman happy. I cancelled my first week of Tarpon trips due to lack of fish from the high surf. The redfish in more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I almost hate to leave all the fish here to chase fish at the Pass but.... The Tarpon are there and they are starting to chew, my first charter is Tuesday and I'm ready to launch a silver rocket. The fishing here is still top drawer. Lots of Red more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The bite continues-- Even with a full moon the fish are still on the feed. I don't know why we are so fortunate to have so many fish in our end of the gUlf this year but I'm not complaining. Today I ran a group trip a father and son on vacation more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Another weather day today. We sure have had a lot of 'em so far this summer. Today was a regular and his family who understand that there's no point in going if not going to be fun. Somedays it's hard telling a vacationer that I just can't take them more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin