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Pensacola Pier July 3, 08

bama-peach — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:23:51 GMT

Got out there bout 3...

Bunch of good kings early... a good many sharks around though:banghead

Finally got my first ever keeper king... about a 12 lber...hooked several other legal ones.. but they all spit the hook...All on cigs and a krocidile spoon

Tons and tons of undersized fish 6-8 o'clock

Right before dark someone had a hugeee 30+ lb king on...

sharky got it nothin left but the head...

All keeper kings landed were caught on hard tails and cigs

Pompano bite?

Spanish_Mackman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:20:06 GMT

Has anyone caught any Pompano from either the P'cola Beach Pier or Okaloosa the last few days? Got family coming down from Virginia that want to try their luck at some pomps.

Pier numbers(people)

Collard — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:05:33 GMT

Went to Peg-Leg's for dinner.........pier walk afterward. There were more people on the pier than I have ever seen before in my life. There were at one time 36 people at the end doing nothing but catching hardtails. 5-7 at a time. They were using rigs big enough for Kings but had 8' long big sabiki rigs and were tearing the hardys up. I would of been pissed if the "fish" were running and had to fight for a spot because of all the "bait" catchers. There must've been 200+ out there. It was unreal. We saw nothing caught but hardtails and ladyfish. Unbelievable, the numbers there. They were lined up from the trough to the end on the east side. Unreal.

pensacola pier report

kingfisher09 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:51:14 GMT

caught unlimited cigs and hardtails, .... spotted two kings and threw on them, nothing. played with flipper, that was fun. goin back later. i caught some weird jack looking fish, anyone know what it is? ( i think its a rudder fish ).

Sunday 29 June Report

Spanish_Mackman — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Arrived at 9am fished until about 4pm at the P'cola Beach Pier. Got rained out temporarily around lunch time but quickly came back for more. Some kings on the deck in the morning with several hook ups and break offs afterwards. A few Spanish (I managed to land a fairly decent sized one and one smaller one using Gotchas). Hardtails were thick as usual. Saw a few schools of Tarpon just out of reach from the T and several good sized sharks. Flipper was out but didn't seem to be bothering us much and stayed far enough away from the pier to not interfere however, he did try to chase the big Spanish I caught but my reel was faster and he lost The highlight of my day was catching a hardtail on my Gotcha and having a big King take a swipe at it while I was reeling it in, got my heart pounding a little because I was using a light rod and tackle. Overall a fun day.

PCB Pier 6/29

Backlash — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:10:53 GMT

Got there at 5:30am, stayed untill 2pm, saw five kings landed,

few spanish, hooked up with a huge spinner shark, had lots of

hits from kings to about 10am, great day !!!

the later report. pier

kingfisher09 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:41:35 GMT

murdered the spanish. tried for a king. to crouded. they were going off though. black tips were getting air bourne. it was fun to watch.

Whats going on at the Pensacola Pier

Backlash — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:12:39 GMT

Anybody have a report for the pier for the last few days???

black [mangrove] snapper

sailmaker — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:31:36 GMT

Anyone have any tips for catching any of the above in the Destin area around October?

Thanks in advance y'all!

any today or yesterday pbc reports?

kingfisher09 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:17:16 GMT

heading there tommarow wanting to know any info, thanks

bob sikes saturday morning 21st

liam — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:01:41 GMT

Arived around 8 fished until 2.30 pm.Fishing was slow,afew white trout and ground mullet.lots of eels.One guy caught a really nice pompano,first one i ever saw around there.It was at least 18 in.,he used fresh dead shrimp.Someone else caught a small redfish.

largest trout of my life

D Gardner — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:44:13 GMT

My wife and I met at a customers house for lunch on perdido bay.

I had to grab my rod which I keep in the truck with a bag of gulps.

I noticed all the bait was in and the tide moving in.I threw er out

and laid it down to eat my mexican lunch.T he rod started screeming

after 3 seconds.I just knew it was a red.The fish jumped and I was in disbelief .After 5 minutes I reached down to the water and craddeld the largest speck I had ever seen.The first thing my wife said wheres the camera when you really need it.She stuck arm out and said measure it.The fish streched from her finger tip to her arm pit (29").I guessed 9lbs.But the best feeling was letting it go.

D and V Gardner

kings at p'cola pier

fishn4fun — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:23:22 GMT

had a good king run at the pier this morning i caught one about 10# lost 2 more 1 smaller 1 bigger 7 or 8 more caught when i left.lots more lost!! occasional spanish mixed in.tons of hardtails as usual

Pensacola pier report

SaltLife44 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:30:28 GMT

Have been out there the last couple days with not much to report other than an occasional pompano spanish or king and of course the thousands of hardtail..

but today was different, the kings showed up and it was a really good day. between me and my two friends we caught 6 kings all in the 18 lb range and many other people hooked some nice ones and some pretty nice sized spanish. they all showed upm at about 10:00 am and were still runnin when i left at 5. sorry no pics, i had no camera

go get em

the one that got away

yankee 2 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:51:47 GMT

well it was me,konz,jeff,and a couple other people at "the pier" i had a nice run screamed like 50 yards then droped it we were useing skipjack so i baited up my rod again slung it back out and set the drag about 15 minutes later drag started screaming shark on.after about a 45 min fight finally we got it up to the pier a 5' bull shark konz tryed to gaff it twice and the second time my line hit the pileing and the line broke well you can say "catch and release"? lol well it was fun but wasent able to get pictures oh well till next time

Pensacola Beach Pier

Backlash — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:45:30 GMT

Has anyone been to PCB Pier in the last few days ??

black snapper killing

tom1s — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:09:51 GMT

Fished the little t pier sat. evening and took my limit of black snapper and so did a buddy. Almost all nice 12-15 inch fish. They where eating the tiny pinfish and shrimp, if you could keep a shrimp on the hook. The wayside park pier probly isnt a secret spot right now, I would imagine the snappers are piled up around the whole bottom of the bridge and any other structure in the area. The bite totally died after about 10:00 pm when the tide went slack low so they like that moving water. Sorry, no pics.....the grill was calling louder then the camera :toast

Father's Day Report from OIP

Spanish_Mackman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:04:30 GMT

Fished for the first time at OIP, water was really clear, winds could not make up their mind and were all over the place throughout the day. Lots of reds patrolling the botton near the beach but none eating, most were in the 30" size range. Pompano were fairly consistent all day. Tons of bait everywhere. I got there around 8am and the king run was over but was told there were a few on deck at sunrise. A few Spanish but they were being picky and wouldn't eat either. I mananged to hook up a few pompano but none would stay on the hook long enough to reach the cooler A kid fishing beside me earlier in the day managed to hook a 6 ft bull shark that he fought for quite a while. Left the pier around 3pm and went to Moes to get a burrito. Over all not a bad Father's Day, btw Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there, myself included! I guess it's true what I've heard about fishing when the moon is full, it makes sence since the fish have the extra light at night to feed. The next day they are not even remotely interested in your bait. Additionally there were tons and tons of bait fish everywhere yesterday at OIP and it was a litteral smorgasbord for the bigger fish.

broken pole

troygot2fish — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:43:56 GMT

Me and a friend were fishing the pcola beach pier. There were tons of hard tails i think we got about 50 of them. Threw out a gotcha to get a skipjack or 2. Then my reel was singing it was a hard fight, some guy yelled out king!!!. then i snapped my pole in halfit was a pole for king fish. went 2 another hole caught 2 good sized specks and 3 reds no bigger then 35 inches. packed up and went home. WHAT A DAY!!!. will post pics when i get them.

Pensacola Pier

Backlash — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:25:36 GMT

Went to Pensacola Pier yesteray, got there around 5:30am , Didnt see to much, alot of

hardtails being hauled in, one king on deck , a few tarpon around, casted on them, nothing.

got a few hardtails on a gotcha :sleeping:, lost a lot of bait, left around 10:30am, wife got sunburned ...:usaflag

June 14 PB Pier

Coconut Joe — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:22:31 GMT

Got at the pier around 6am. Wind out of the east and water was clear. One King was on the deck at around 5:30 then saw two more Kings hit the deck. Slowed down after that. Herring, Cigs and hardtails being caught. The resident cuda was hanging around. Left at 10am.

Tarpon at the pier?

troutslayer31 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:53:30 GMT

Have there been a lot of tarpon at the Pcola Pier lately?

Any Reports from the P'cola Pier?

Spanish_Mackman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:25:56 GMT

Looking to venture over from Miss. on Sunday to try my luck again. Debating whether to go to P'cola pier or Okaloosa this time around. Haven't seen much action at the P'cola pier in the forums compared to Okaloosa. Looks like Okaloosa has been heating up with just about everything, especially kings. Does anyone have any recent reports on what's being caught at P'cola pier over say the last 24-48 hours or so?

where to go??

circlehook — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:39:04 GMT

Im taking my lil bro around 10:30 this mornin.. what do yall think sykes or the pier.

BobSykes/ Gulf Pier

circlehook — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:54:31 GMT

Anybody have a report for the bridge or the pier. I was planning on taking my little brother tomorrow. thanks

Holy jumping mullet, a report from Konz!

konz — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:21:56 GMT

I know folks, it's been far too long! 2 weeks without fishing is like a day without sunshine! So anyway I gave ol' Yankee a call yesterday and told him I was heading to our spot to do a little fishing and that I'd need some company! Somebody has to help net them fish right.....hahaha Anyway I got to the spot and yankee showed up shortly after. Night started off slow b/c of the low tide and after the first 2 hours the only thing I'd caught was a dink spanish and some bait. Well around sundown the wind picked up and shortly after the tide started coming in! The fishing was still pretty slow for about another hour and then while Yankee and I were discussing the mysteries of the universe.......I heard something that I hadn't heard for weeks! A screaming drag!!!! The ol' 750 was screaming my name! I pick it up and fish on! Yankee reels in his lines, and gets the net. Well how about that a nice bull red! (pics to be added latter) After getting the hook out yankee got a nice pic of me releasing that beauty back into the bay! Catch a pig fish for bait and my line is back out....soon Yankee has a nice tug and lands a fat blue! Before he could rebait his other rod bends over and he lands yet another fat blue!

Well we waited for another 30 minutes and called it a night.......some folks gotta work you know!

pensacola gulf pier

mullet man — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:01:40 GMT

are the spanish and pompano still running .

Daughter's Spec

phillja — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:37:51 GMT

My daughter's first spec. She's done well surf fishing and offshore and now she's doing it up on peirs. I had sto show it off.

Andy

May 18 - May 25

JimD — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:09:14 GMT

My wife and I had a great week at Four Season's. The week started out with the dreaded southwest wind and the water was very muddy. We did not see any cobia, spanish or kings and didn't manage to catch any pompano. However, we caught plenty of flounder and tons of whiting. Not to mention the ladyfish and the cats that drove us crazy. Thursday, 5/22 the wind had shifted to southeast and the water started to clear some. I caught my very first redfish and got to eat my first redfish. It wasn't a monster, but it was in the middle of the slot, so it joined that days catch of founder, whiting and snapper at the dinner table. It was my second favorite fish of the week, flounder is pretty hard to beat.

All in all, it was a great week. We found the accommodations at Four Season's to be outstanding and the pier was first class. Most of the time, the two of us had the pier to ourselves. The most crowded it was during the week was 5 people counting my wife and I on the pier.

Here's a picture of the redfish.

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Note: My wife took this picture with her camera and obviously she has not got the date and time set correctly.

Cobia on Tues. 5/6/08

King Killa — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:06:30 GMT

OK, first time posting here but feel compelled...not sure if I am in the right section, so go easy on me...went out with a buddy of mine who had never been salt water fishing here (and who is a marine pilot just stationed in Pcola) to kill kingfish on Tues morning, and had some success...kept two of six caught. We ran in to the beach to anchor out in front of the Dock restaraunt for a burger and beer before heading in....this was about 12 noon. Right on the beach we saw some spanish so we flipped gotchas at em (this is all within the second sandbar...so 100 feet to the beach. We got a few nice spanish and were fixing to anchor when I saw a cobia coming along the first sandbar, right in front of us...I grabbed the spinning rod with the only lure I had on (the silver gotcha with the feather thing on the back) and lobbed it out in front of him. He took it and I set the drag carefully...25 LB Sufix and a 40 LB mono flouro leader made me nervous. I fought while my buddy drove...we chased for a while right on the beach..1 hour 22 minutes later we boat him...

I know that people are calling BS on the whole thing...thing is, I don't fish for Cobia, but like any other fisherman, I take my shots where I see em. I have pics and some video of the actual fight (some showing the gotcha in the corner of her mouth) which I will post tonight. The fish weighed 82.5 LBS 2 hours after being put in the box. This was my first time ever casting to a Cobia, and YES I know I got very lucky.

Now for the crazy part: I had no scale, but wanted to weigh her bc I knew she was pretty big. A guy down on the beach suggested I weigh her at the peir. I have the # in my phone, so I called to see if that was cool. The fellow on the phone said hell yes, bring her up. Well, before I could, I got a phone call from "Jerry" on the pier, telling me it would be easier to just pull up to the pier so he could lower us a scale...I thought bout it, asked him if it wouldn't piss off the guys fishing up there. He said just come to where he was waving which should not be a problem. I did it...I know ALL THE RULES...I dive, fish from boats and piers/bridges, etc....but the guy said come on so I did....Gimme a ticket if you don't like it, and I'll pay it.

Anyway, long and short of it is that after we weighed it, we dropped his scale in the drink, so I owe him a scale.( Jerry is a good guy, he later told me not to worry about the scale....but that is not right. I will be bringing you a new scale Jerry...and thanks for the help). Well, as we were sitting beside the pier, nowhere near anyones fishing line, we start hearing the "regular" cobia fisherman cursing at us, calling us every name you can think of. My buddy asks if they are serious. I say oh yes...I have seen the cobia fishermen on the pier RUN CHILDREN OVER trying to cast to a cobe or a turtle or whatever...broken poles and no apologies, knock a tourist over no apologies...no regard for the basic rules commonplace to any civilized scene. So to hear them cussing us out for catching "THEIR COBIA" was no shock to me. Of course I knew that they are notorious for lobbing jigs at boats. I have never had this to worry about bc I try to respect the pier and their lines and casting requirement (they could need to make a long cast to reach a cruising fish). Also, I think the law also requires 500', or something like that...?

Well we did not get hit, but 2 jigs plopped in about 2 feet from the boat, and one line went over, touching my buddy's shoulder. If I could have grabbed it in time, I would have cleated that line and taken off...Well, just for the guys that were throwing on us, we know who you are now. The REGULARS on the pier didn't want to ID you while everybody was around...but you IDIOTS THREW ON MY BOAT WITH 50 PEOPLE WATCHING YOU.

My trip to the pier with the deputies right after was not to arrest anyone...it was to figure out who we could talk to about it AFTERWARDS. One more thing, you show up great on video we took of you throwing on us. You are aware that aside from being pointless, stupid and dangerous, it is a FELONY to launch any missile at a boat....you did know that didn't you. What do you expect to achieve? Do you want to injure someone when you do that? You can't expect any good to come from it!

Here is the bottom line...you were JEALOUS and PISSED OFF because you think that was your fish. You think I "cut you off". Gimme a break. I don't even have the gear to properly pursue cobia. Quit your crying, because you would have casted to that fish, too. Oh yea, one more thing.. You saw us anchored on the beach right after that. If you were angry and bold enought to throw a jig at us when you were 35 feet in the air and safe, why not come throw it at us from 3 feet away? Maybe bc you would get something thrown back at you? If you threw on my boat, you are a coward. Get a life...I love to fish...been out 5 days straight now, but I know that there are more important things than a damned fish. When you figure that out, you will be all grown up.

As for MY cobia, it is delicious. I got some good advice back at Navy Point from REEL TWIZTID and his buddies on how to grill it up. AWESOME TASTING FISH!!

Thanks for all the help to those who helped, and screw you to those who hated.

Shark fishing the piers in the PCB area

bullmaster — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:32:16 GMT

Do any of the piers in the Pcb area allow shark fishing at night and if so what is the biggest reel they allow?Thanks

Anyone been fishing on pier last 2 days?

mickeyj — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:04:27 GMT

Just curious if anyone had been fishing at the P'cola beach pier the last couple of days. I know all the rainbow-warriors are rampid out there this weekend, but I was wondering if any King or Spanish were running the last couple of days ? Water clarity? Thanks guys.

5-20-08 Decent Night of Fishing

konz — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:48:25 GMT

Bladeco will post some pics later but here's the basic run down of the report.

Ken (bigrigz), Mike (yankee), Steven (yankee2), and myself all met up to do a little fishing. We were fishing for small sharks and bull reds and just about anything else that will take a bait.

We started off as usual with catching pinfish, finger mullet, white trout, and southern kingfish for bait.

I was the first to get a good run only to have the bait bit in half by a bluefish (made a perfect bite mark). Then Mikes rod goes off and he lands a little 2' sharp nose. The next person to get a run is Steven. He lands a fat sail cat. Then Mike lands another 2' sharp nose. In the meantime something keeps grabbing my bait but not committing to the hook. Finally I get the sorry sob and it's a blue.

Bladeco shows up and the fishing starts to heat up, nfortunately the fish biting are all cats. Big sail cats. I think we all caught a couple. Then finally Steven gets a good run but he's got a cast net in his hand. So I grab the rod and get to work. I can tell right away that it's a ray. Had him on the deck in short order and he's quickly sliced up for bait. I finally get a nice run......fish just peeling line and as soon as I set the hook, the shark goes airborne and lands on the line (I'm using 15lb) and he's gone. :banghead . At least this one pulled a little, I had something cut my line without even pulling out any drag about 45 minutes prior to that.

Now this is where things get good. Ken had been having a rough night.....lost two leaders due to cut offs but he quickly made up for it. He had a nice live bait out and noticed his bait going crazy. So he grabs the rod and starts to reel in slowly. FISH ON......I see the fish and think its a keeper red.......then some light hits it and Ken yells speck! I'm thinking holy s**t no way. This thing was huge. I lower the pier net and choked on my first try.......oh man I got scared b/c the fishing line wrapped around the net rope.......but I quickly got it in the net and Ken had a FAT 25" 4.14lb speck on the deck. The largest I've ever seen personally. High fives all around. Well for the next 45 minutes or so, it's back to catching catfish. Then Kens drag starts screaming and he's got a decent fish on.........get it close enough to see and it's a good little black tip. After a few close calls with the pilings I manage to get a rope around it and the fish hits the deck. It measured 38" to the fork. It's quickly gutted and given to a friend.

At this point I'm really wanting a decent fish. It's getting late and if Ken hooked into another good fish I was going to cut his line (j/k). Well I was soon awarded with my own screaming run.......1, 2, 3, set hook. FISH ON. I'm thinking it's a bull red b/c of the way it just steadily pulled line and then kinda gave up.......until it got close to the pier and I felt it role and then take off again. I had it back quickly and to the pier. It was still a little green and after a failed net attempt (don't ask why we were using a net) the shark spooked and shot under the pier......line broke and off it swam. No problem though because I was going to let this one go anyway. It was another black tip, guestimate at 50" total length.

Called it a night shortly after that.

Alabama Gulf State Pier

Thunderstruck — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:54:35 GMT

Rode down by the pier Last Sat. in the boat. It looks like the new build is out to about where the old pier stopped. So I guess it is about half way complete. They are building the hand rails just about as fast as they drive piles. No pier house yet, It seems that they are making good progress.:clap

Destin Bridge?

Fuhrer48 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:04:16 GMT

Has anybody been fishin destin bridge lately or the jetties?

Pensacola Pier this weekend

Spanish_Mackman — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:02:42 GMT

Plan on taking advantage of the long weekend coming up to fish the Pensacola Pier. Winds look to be favorable out of the east-southeast most of the weekend. How has the Pompano and Spanish bite been the last few days?

sand fleas

olilly — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:53:17 GMT

hasanyone found any amount of sand fleas at pensacola beach?

Bob Sykes 1-15-08

Lynchmob — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:38:04 GMT

Went to Bob Sykes yesterday afternoon to wet some bait. The fishing was very slow to say the least. Not even a damn white trout! Tried cut bait, gulp shrimp and fresh dead shrimp. A couple of guys were using live shrimp for sheephead but they couln't get a bite either. There were some nice schools of mullet that came through right before dark, but that was the only action to be had out there. Has anyone caught anything off the t pier?

Pensacola Gulf Pier

Pullin Drag — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:41:51 GMT

Hello, I'm Tim and I'm new to the forum. Just wanted to share this King Mac with all my fellow anglers and anglerettes. Caught this off Gulf Pier today and thought for a minute the fish had me instead of me having the fish. But with help from my fellow fishing comrades we managed to get him on the deck. FISH ON!

29.5 LBS

it took long enough but i got one.

mack — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:06:17 GMT

it aint a big one but its my first for the year. lost 4 this year before him.:doh 28 lbs