For anyone with a kayak, I would strongly recommend buying yourself a stickit anchor pin. Fishing on the flats is a whole lot easier if you have one. Deployment is easy. Just slam it into the ground and you’re stuck. No mess or hassle. Don’t burden yourself with ropes and pulleys. Keep it simple.
Use it off your bow
Use it off the stern
Chris Dunn
Inshore
If you looking for the bull redfish the place to be seems to be along the beach between Pensacola and Perdido Pass. Those fishing Pensacola Pass at night have also been catching their share of fish.
You can pretty much bet on being able to catch some white trout around the Pensacola Bay Bridge, but the consensus has been that many of them are small.
Sheepshead have been another pretty consistent find for inshore anglers lately. Look for them around structure with barnacles like bridge pilings, rock jetties, or deep docks and sea walls.
Offshore
If you can brave the weather there’s some good action to be had in the Gulf. It’s an excellent time for a rig trip in search of tuna. From the latest reports there are quite a few yellowfins along with plenty of blackfins around the floating rigs.
Finding a good box of bottom feeders shouldn’t be too tough of a task either. Amberjack should be a very easy find on the larger wrecks and the triggerfish, vermilion snapper, and grouper reports have been pretty good as well.
Piers & Beaches
The reports have been different each day, but the cold weather will definitely keep the bonita feeding around the Pensacola Beach Gulf Fishing Pier.
Those fishing on Bob Sikes Bridge still are finding a fair amount of sheepshead along with some redfish, black drum, ground mullet, and white trout.
Surf fishing reports have been few and far between, but this is ordinarily a good time to fish for whiting and there’s always a good chance you hook into a bull red.
Captain Chris Phillips
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