Fishing Reports by Capt. Larry Pentel

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Sorry for not sitting down and typing sooner but I have been hard at it. Fellow capt. Randall Jones has started calling me ghetto boy, says I can't seem to stay away from the projects. Latest major project is I took over Indian Pass Campground more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The past 10 days have been like summer time! Maybe not as warm but there have been lots of folks wanting to go fishing. As always I've been more than happy to be the guy driving the boat. The weather hasn't been to bad but most of my trips have be more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Winter time is here. Not to many folks around wanting to go fishing and not to many nice days to go anyway. It sure is a treat when it comes together though. Sunday before last I got to sight fish redfish over at Indian Pass. The wind wasn't blowin more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - After having quite a few days of gorgeous weather ( once again the weather man missed), we are back to cool and rainy today. I'm supposed to fish tomorrow and Sat., hopefully the weather will tolerable and the sun will shine. After running Gulf tri more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Thanksgiving week and everybody wants to go fishing. After alsmost two weeks with only 2 trips I am fortunate enough to have 9 days in a row booked Hopefully the next 5 will be as good as the past 4. Sunday I had a 5 hour with folks that had been s more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Snapper season is over and it went out with a bang. Lots of limit catches the last week with most of the fish being a good grade. Almost like mother nature moved some fish around just to make it easy at the end. Not like there is nothing else to ca more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I love Fall. The temperatures cool in the early AM, warm in the middle of the day. The beaches are almost empty, no traffic jams and I've put my sunscreen up for the year. Oh yeah, the fish seem to bite pretty good too. I've been real fortunate to more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - And now for the good part of tropical storms- GROUPERS !! Hurricane Lili may have have cost me some fishing days but the quality of the bite since she left has been phenomenal. A lot of the Red Snappers we had before seem to have been moved out but more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - This weeks high winds and seas are brought to you courtesy of...... Hurricane Lili ! I think someone entered us in the storm of the week club- looks like the next 4 days or so aren't going to be fishable. Not that we don't like what storms can do f more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - What should be the nicest, calmest and least crowded time of the year for fishing has all but been shut down the past couple of weeks. Hanna, Issadore and now Lily have kept the Dead Fish on her trailer for a while and for what looks like possibly an more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin