Captains Report

Good news for anyone heading to Mexico Beach, Panama City Beach, 30A, or Destin this summer: the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has restored online sales of short-term saltwater and freshwater fishing licenses. That 3-day or 7-day permit you used to ha...

While every center console on the Panhandle is burning fuel offshore chasing the red snapper opener, the grass flats from Mexico Beach to Destin are quietly going off. If you've been waiting for the right window to put a deposit on an inshore charter, this is it.

In the same news cycle that brought genuinely good news to Gulf shrimpers — early-season catches off the Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida Panhandle coasts running strong enough to give working captains reason for cautious optimism[1] — the federal fisheries management framewo...