Destin Inshore Fishing Guides

[Bill Cooksey]

Just got back from PCB, FL. I fished for 5 afternoons on the jetties at the St. Andrews State Park. Watched the tide and hit the jetties when the tide was moving out fast from bay to gulf. This is when a trash line sets up and craps/bait fish are getting swept out into the gulf. The big red fish were everywhere crashing the craps on top. Just chunk a badonkadonk or top dawg out to the trash line and they will smash it. Best color was black with orange belly but I caught some on other colors like a baby blue with white belly like a blue crap. I prolly caught 30 to 40 big red fish in the 5 afternoons I fished. All were way to big to keep but I didn't want them anyway.

$4 pass to state park beats the heck out of $300 for a half day bay guide.

Now that's a solid tip.

[MemphisStockBroker]

Just got back from PCB, FL. I fished for 5 afternoons on the jetties at the St. Andrews State Park. Watched the tide and hit the jetties when the tide was moving out fast from bay to gulf..

was this inshore, outshore, bay, surf, reed or bottom fishing?? need to get what you did classified properly so someone doesnt jump your butt about not knowing what you were doing.... other than catching the stew out of some fish...

[tica-tica]

Just got back from PCB, FL. I fished for 5 afternoons on the jetties at the St. Andrews State Park. Watched the tide and hit the jetties when the tide was moving out fast from bay to gulf..

was this inshore, outshore, bay, surf, reed or bottom fishing?? need to get what you did classified properly so someone doesnt jump your butt about not knowing what you were doing.... other than catching the stew out of some fish...

Just on the jetties in the pass where the bay enters the gulf. Hell, I don't know what I'm doing most of the time but I visit PCB often and fine tuned the red fish in the summer down there.

Maybe some tide watchers on here can verify because I am a land loving north alabama boy.

I just watch the tides and the amount of water expected to move between them. Fish when high tide is moving to low tide which means the water is moving out of the bay and into the gulf. You want a big difference between the high tide # and the low tide #... the bigger the difference the more water will be moved. More water moved also means faster water and the faster the water the more bait/trash gets sucked out into the gulf and therefor the better the fishing. If the tide is to slow the crabs can hang on to the eel grass and not get sucked into the gulf... don't fish on a slow tide... drink beer on the beach You fish a time between the high tide and low tide and when I was there you got about 2 to 3 hours of great fishing when you hit it right.

The trash line sets up in the middle of the bay to far to cast to from the jetties at first. I use a giant top dawg lure at first so I can chunk it farther and reach the trash line. As the tides get closer to low tide the trash line get easy casting distance from the jetty.


I pray that I leaked enough fishing info to not get BS called on me... AMEN.

[Double R 2]

Just got back from PCB, FL. I fished for 5 afternoons on the jetties at the St. Andrews State Park. Watched the tide and hit the jetties when the tide was moving out fast from bay to gulf..

was this inshore, outshore, bay, surf, reed or bottom fishing?? need to get what you did classified properly so someone doesnt jump your butt about not knowing what you were doing.... other than catching the stew out of some fish...

I think it's most properly refered to as ONshore Knowing Tica, he was likely sitting on an upended 5 fallon bucket - and boy does he sling a mean cane pole!

[tica-tica]

Just got back from PCB, FL. I fished for 5 afternoons on the jetties at the St. Andrews State Park. Watched the tide and hit the jetties when the tide was moving out fast from bay to gulf..

was this inshore, outshore, bay, surf, reed or bottom fishing?? need to get what you did classified properly so someone doesnt jump your butt about not knowing what you were doing.... other than catching the stew out of some fish...

I think it's most properly refered to as ONshore Knowing Tica, he was likely sitting on an upended 5 fallon bucket - and boy does he sling a mean cane pole!

I didn't have a bucket to sit on. It was ONjetty fishing and it ain't for the weak hearted. Nothing to eat out there but smoked oysters and crackers. They were hittin' so good I had to jump in an 'gill' these two 'live action' style.

[MemphisStockBroker]

those are 26" inches.... right ????

[tica-tica]

Nope. Most were way bigger than 26". I released all of them. I might have had a couple keeper fish in the 5 days of fishing but I just let them all go.