Spanish Mack’s are one of the favorite springtime species for our Bay Boat guides and offer a great target for family trips with Kids. A popular way of fishing is trolling rigs with multiple lures or jigs. They can be seen “flipping” on the surface by the thousands. Huge masses of Spanish Mackerel invade or beaches and bays in early Spring. While typically the area fishing fleet only targets these fish during the “kill” season (June1-July15) Our Guides have been successfully practicing catch and release with these fish for years.Ī long time favorite among North Florida charter captains, the King Mackerel is one of the largest and fastest of the Mackerel family and commonly reaches 30-40 lbs. Nicknamed “Smokers” they are both hot on the reel and good in a wood smoker. King Mackerel can be teased up with live chum, trolled or live baited with Spinning tackle. Our guides have been the first to develop techniques to “bring-up” and even sight-fish these bottom dwellers. In the last few years the Red Snapper has received a lot of attention from the Florida Fisheries department, regulation wars and overharvest have been associated with the species and it’s place among charter boat ice coolers has been unstable. Red Snapper: May-August (June 1-July 15 )Ĭonsidered the King of “table fare” the red Snapper is one of the gulf’s standard reef/wreck species. Once positioned over the structure the “AJ’s” can be brought to the surface (via undisclosed/secretive techniques) Each Captain has their own special recipe to do so… Once on the surface to Amberjacks are easily hooked with bait, lure or Fly, but be ready to PULL and put the brakes on before they head back down to the structure! Our Panama City Beach guides have developed an exciting way to fish to these hard pulling fish. We target the Jacks using surface plugs and Flies, a surface presentation is the BEST technique to entice a jack to attack, and one of the most FUN! The typical method of finding these fish in the spring is for our Bayboat guides to “run” the shallow sandbars from their center console towers and spot the large schools.Īlso Known as “AJ’s”, Amberjack call near-shore wrecks and bottom structure their home. A Jack Crevelle is pound-for-pound one of the hardest fighting fish you can catch. Typical spring schools of jacks hold hundreds of fish averaging from 15-20 lbs. The jacks move inshore from their wintering wreck locations and prowl the sandbars hunting the returning mullet. Jack Crevelle make a showing along the shallow beaches of Panama City in the early spring. Cobia is one of the best eating fish to bless our waters. Locals and captains along the Panhandle become Cobia-crazy in the spring awaiting the first fish to make it’s showing. Once spotted anglers throw an array of different lures baits and flies to elicit a bite, everyone has their secret technique and style. Cobia swim on the surface and are typically moving to the west. The typical approach to Cobia fishing is to cruise the sandbars and visually search for the west swimming fish. The information gained helps in conservation efforts for this great sportfish.Īlso called “LING” or “Lemonfish” by locals this shark-looking fish makes its migratory showing along the Panama City Beaches in early spring.
Some of our guides work closely with the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Foundation to place state-of-the-art Satellite tags on the migrating adult fish. With “towers” over the center console your guide can spot these Migrating fish coming from long distances and prepare the angler to make the “shot”. Panama City Beach offers some world-class tarpon fishing, our bay boats are perfectly suited for this type of sight fishing. We target these fish with both Light Tackle and Fly. Our panama City Beach Bay Boats fish tarpon by sight fishing the migrating schools that swim and gather along our Beaches. As the fish group up they begin their pre-spawn habits and patterns. Tarpon come inshore as spring water temps climb. Our Panhandle Tarpon population in the Panama City Beach area is seasonal and migratory. Andrews Bay system, and the larger size, breeding population of “BULLS” can be found in and around the deeper passes. Most of our Panama City Beach Fishing Charters target redfish in the Panama City Pass, this is one of the primary species that our guides catch, these “Pass” redfish are the “BULLS”, they range from 10-30lbs or more A hard fighting and often willing participant, the redfish is our go-to species! The smaller juvenile Redfish can be found in back bays and flats in the interior waterways of the St.
Redfish are on the “staple” species pursued by all Gulf Coast guides.
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