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The boat was getting pounded by the chop as we headed south of East Pass. To smooth out the ride, we zig-zagged through the waves. This approach took us far off the course from one of our usual bait spots. We had to find a new one. Eventually, the sonar showed a huge cloud of bait below the boat in ...

Friday at 4:20 am, my fishing buddy texts me, “Radar doesn’t look promising. What do you think? . . . The future radar blows up.” I was thinking it was time to go fishing. We had pushed back fishing trips for several weeks due to weather.

At 5:00 am, there was just a tiny thunderstorm 20 miles ...

Great report. I would love to see pictures from the trip, especially pictures of the big alligator munching on the smaller one.

I now feel ashamed and embarrassed for using a popping cork.

Hit-n-Miss wrote: May 31st, 2025, 10:19 am Wow awesome report! Love the pictures. Yall killed em.

Thanks for enjoying the report

hairface wrote: May 29th, 2025, 5:33 pm Nice catch like the pictures looking to buy me a camera which one are you using

Hairface, I am using a GoProHhero 10 set to take 5.3 K video at 30 frames per second. I pull still shots from the videos.

Jigs will get you for sure, funny how it's always a red grouper gaggle that doubles up on the jig. Makes me wish I had went on the trip I was invited on the 24th but having to put in a new drain field and a new driveway probably would have been a bit much when I'm going in a week :-D


Good luck ...

Are there any shark experts out there? Can anyone tell me what kind of sharks these are in the photos?

Yep, real life experience and real data trumps “scientific” estimates every time. I am hopeful that the regulators start caring enough to prioritize getting better data for establishing gag grouper regulations.

Carrabelle, May 25, 2025. We launched at the Carrabelle River around 7 am which was early enough to get one of the few remaining parking spots at the ramp. We headed south and fished for cigar minnows to supplement our frozen bait. Then we headed beyond S Tower and a few feet deeper than 100’ to a ...

My thoughts exactly.

I'm staying down by St Andrews State Park. It won't be completely low tide the next few days but any suggestions where I can go floundering?


I don’t know much about floundering or Saint Andrews State Park, but if you figure it out, I would love to hear about it in a blog post. A few pictures ...

On Monday, I fished out of Carrabelle with some friends and followed my usual routine. I picked up the boat from Martin Marine, launched at a ramp on the Carrabelle River, caught a variety of baitfish offshore, and targeted the most expensive legal fish in the area. Upon returning home and reviewing ...

rockyg wrote: May 20th, 2025, 2:42 pm Sadly, Jim passed away just a few days ago. He suffered a heart attack while fishing. Search for him on Facebook for more info. He was a great guy....he will be missed.

Wow! I met him at his shop last year. Seemed like a great guy.

Bienvenue! Il y a beaucoup de gros requins dans la région de Big Bend. Veuillez les attraper et les manger. Les requins mangent trop de red snapper et de grouper.

Translated: Welcome! There are many large sharks in the Big Bend area. Please catch and eat them. The sharks eat too many red snapper ...