Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore

Fishing remains exeptionally good with a different species stealing the show each day. There have been lots of pelagics all the way from far offshore to right on the beach to make life really interesting. Dennis Barret and the "Sea Wolf" crew from Destin caught a 1053# Blue Marlin last Friday in the Mississippi tournament. Thats right- a new Gulf all tackle record; of course they were 100 miles offshore. Not all the stickfish are way out there. Sunday I was running a 4 hour trip right on the beach and we got another sailfish !! A limit of kings (1 @30#), 5 (big) spanish,4 snappers, a shark and a released sail I estimated at 55#. My anglers were pretty busy. We've had limit catches of kings several times this week along with amberjacks limits a couple of times and the always sought after red snapper. The glory fish today was a 20# dolphin that made the mistake of swimming up to the boat while we were bottom fishing. I flipped a live bait out on the spinning rod and he 'bout broke the speed record charging the bait. A dozen red snappers, 4 kings, 2 sharks,4 black snappers, 3 amberjacks, a grouper and the mahi made for a very full box. AND on the inshore scene: Capt. Randall Jones on the " At Random" caught the first Tarpon of the year out of Indian Pass on Monday. He estimated it at 120# but said he was even more exited about the one they jumped off 2 hours later. Said it proves the first one wasn't a fluke but "They're Back!". As much fun as I'm having here I can't wait to go launch those big silver rockets next month. Capt. Larry Pentel