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Fishing Reports

Nick’s Redfish Round-Up May 19th

May 11th, 2012

Sign up here for Nick’s Redfish Round-Up tournament May 19th.  All sorts of new divisions, great for the “pros” and your weekend warriors.  $150 entry, two man teams.  Call or email us for more details.

Custom De-Hookers

May 11th, 2012

Get your custom de-hookers here at the Ships Chandler made by our man Tommy D.  You can get one customized just like you want it.  Call us for more details.

Amberjack’s are Biting!!

May 10th, 2012

Here’s a pic of some nice jack’s caught by Pat Van and crew yesterday.  Keeper jacks have been stacked up on all big metal structure the last couple weeks even inshore towards the beach. 

Shark Fishing in Destin, FL

April 23rd, 2012

Starting May 1st, 2012, the Ships Chandler Guide Service will be offering Shark Fishing Trips!!  We have everything setup, ready to go, including new tackle and harnesses  specially made for the big sharks here on the Gulf Coast.  We’ll be offering both day and night, inshore and offshore shark trips, from 4hr to 12hr trips.  [...]

Fishing is good

April 19th, 2012

Capt. Robbie Broestler and his group from Ohio had a great half day trip this morning.  They had a great trip catching kingfish, spanish mackeral, mahi, red snapper, redfish, and trout.  Both the inshore and offshore bite has been great as of late.  Charters are booking up fast, so if you’re looking to go fishing, [...]

Mac Daddy Cobia!!

April 11th, 2012

Mac was back at it again this morning cobia fishing.  He and his son Chris caught their limit of two fish and left plenty out there.  They found a whale shark that had about 30 cobia on it.  Great reports today so far for cobia.

Light Tackle Snapper

April 11th, 2012

Our head mechanic Kevin “Mac” McDaniel has his son Chris in town this week so they decided to slip out on a beautiful spring day and go after some big red snapper on light tackle.  Fishing within 3 miles of the Destin Pass they caught 4 snapper over 16lbs with multiple 10-12lb fish.  Fishing has [...]

Nearshore/Beach Fishing Heating Up

March 30th, 2012

The cobia are really starting to show up now the last week or so including some really big fish.  Chris Raim out of Destin caught a 98lb fish right out of the Destin Pass.  Here’s a picture of Capt. Christian Yergens with a nice cobia caught just the other day our of Panama City.  Another [...]

Offshore Bite!!

March 30th, 2012

Just got in a couple offshore reports from guys fishing yesterday.  Mike Smith and a buddy had a great day of fishing on Thursday including 3 big wahoo and even raised a blue marlin that wouldn’t eat.  He said the water looked good out there and saw some bait, no tunas though.  John Lee of [...]

Fishing Getting Good!!

March 19th, 2012

With this warming trend we’ve had the water temperature has really warm up which has kicked off fishing.  They saw quite a few cobia this weekend with the biggest weighing over 70lbs.  The spanish mackeral are as thick as we’ve seen them in years.  A few of guys have been staging up on the inshore wrecks [...]

The Ships Chandler Marina Complex

646 East Highway 98

Destin, Florida 32541

Phone: 850-837-9306