We fish for different fish depending on the time of the year.

In the early spring (mid Feb. to mid April) its big amberjacks and groupers.

Groupers spawn in the springtime and school together 35 to 65 miles offshore of Destin. They congregate on rock bottom and coral reef in areas that are to far off for a lot of boats. This is our best grouper fishing time of the year. Most of our serious fishermen do their first trip of the year during the early spring. The 12 hr fishing is fantastic. The end of February thru the 1st three weeks in April are one of the peak times for long grouper trips and 2-day trips.

All of the boats have had the winter off and there has been no pressure on the fish stocks at all. The fish are bunched up and charged up.

Red snappers start in late April and the first few months (up into June) are just outrageous bottom fishing. Limits of snappers with groupers and amberjacks mixed in.

We also target big cobia in April and May. Sight fishing for monster cobias on light tackle is a challenge. One on one, with a big cobia on the surface. We also fish several cobia tournaments during that time looking for that monster fish.

In the summer months you will find us fishing offshore for the big sport fish too. Wahoo’s, black fin tunas, big kings, dolphin, marlin and sailfish move in and the light tackle sport fishing gets hot. Fishing live baits on the surface and with down riggers, searching out the weed lines for offshore activity. A lot of days we can combine some offshore sport fishing as well as some deep-water amberjack fishing.

In the summer months (mid May thru mid Sept.) you never know what the day is going to bring. You could be presented with any number of different species all in the same day. 2-day marlin and tuna trips are very popular. Fishing up to 150 miles offshore around the deep water floating oil rigs. Defiantly not for the meek or mild!

When the weather cools down in the fall the bottom fish get charged back up just in time for the October Fishing Rodeo.

The Destin Fishing Rodeo is a month long fishing tournament with many different categories to fish in. The rodeo is a 50+ year tradition in Destin and makes October in Destin a special time of the year. The Destin Seafood Festival is always on the 1st weekend in Destin and is also great tradition in Destin not to be missed.
The Fish N Fool is entered in the Rodeo every year and all of all anglers and customers fishing in Oct. are entered automatically.

In the fall months of Oct. and Nov. the weather starts to cool off and the fish get to snapping.

We fish for all kinds of bottom fish as well as do a lot of offshore trolling. "Offshore fishing on the breaks (what we call the Edges) 23-28 miles offshore, we target schools of blackfin tuna, king mackerels and the occasional wahoo, big dolphin and cobias. There is no telling what you might hook or catch live bait trolling with down riggers in the deep water."

November turns to Indian summer in Destin and there are no people in Destin and the Fishing offshore is awesome. The Red snapper go into off-season Nov. 1st and we concentrate on the blackfins, amberjacks and groupers. An incredible month to fish in Destin. Great weather and great fishing.

All during the year we have a lot of different options to fish for. The trick is to have a long enough trip to get to the less fished offshore fishing grounds and having the time to work and fish once you get there.