Pensacola Fishing Reports (May 2026)

Jake Durant with Gulf Bay Charters
Pensacola, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Hey man, the inshore fishing has been heating up as the water cools down. A lot of redfish, mangrove snapper, and a few flounder mixed in. The offshore bite has stayed consistent through the past few weeks with triggerfish, vermillion snapper, and amberjack

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Jake Durant with Gulf Bay Charters Pensacola, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Hey man, the inshore fishing has been heating up as the water cools down. A lot of redfish, mangrove snapper, and a few flounder mixed in. The offshore bite has stayed consistent through the past few weeks with triggerfish, vermillion snapper, and amberjack

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Bradley Ables
Orange Beach, Alabama
Reported: 3 years ago

The nearshore bite has been on fire and it's only going to get better. It's not as hot as summertime, and the seas are calm. Nearshore the spanish mackerel, king mackerels, big Reds, are in full swing. Offshore the Famous Red Snapper on Friday through Mondays have been awesome. With...

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Bradley Ables Orange Beach, Alabama Reported: 3 years ago

The nearshore bite has been on fire and it's only going to get better. It's not as hot as summertime, and the seas are calm. Nearshore the spanish mackerel, king mackerels, big Reds, are in full swing.
Offshore the Famous Red Snapper on Friday through Mondays have been awesome. With cooler temps and calm seas we have been bringing in some big ones.
Inshore the redfish, and speckled trouts are biting pretty good.
So now is the time to book your trip, cooler temps, calm seas, big fish and no crouds.

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Larry Shults
Pensacola, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Late summer/early fall fishing is starting to heat up. Getting a weather window to make the trip out has been a challenge. However, when able to get offshore, we are catching a variety of species with the second half of trigger fish season open and now Amberjack opening back, I...

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Larry Shults Pensacola, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Late summer/early fall fishing is starting to heat up. Getting a weather window to make the trip out has been a challenge. However, when able to get offshore, we are catching a variety of species with the second half of trigger fish season open and now Amberjack opening back, I expect a lot of great offshore catches over the next few weeks. Deep drop fishing for vermillion snapper, porgies, and various grouper species has been on fire. For those who like our top water action, the waters have been boiling with skipjacks and Mahi. Now is the time to get out there and catch them up before they move out to their winter waters.

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Tim King
Pensacola, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Redfish, specks, jack crevalle, and mingos have been a good success lately

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Tim King Pensacola, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Redfish, specks, jack crevalle, and mingos have been a good success lately

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Seth Wilson
Spanish Fort, Alabama
Reported: 3 years ago

Finding a few cobia on the Rigs

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Seth Wilson Spanish Fort, Alabama Reported: 3 years ago

Finding a few cobia on the Rigs

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Jake Durant with Gulf Bay Charters
Pensacola, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

The inshore has been heating up lately! As water temperature cools off it seems like the bite has steadily picked up. Offshore has been consistently good, typically coming home with our limits of triggerfish and vermillion snapper

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Jake Durant with Gulf Bay Charters Pensacola, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

The inshore has been heating up lately! As water temperature cools off it seems like the bite has steadily picked up.
Offshore has been consistently good, typically coming home with our limits of triggerfish and vermillion snapper

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Tim Birell
Summerdale, Alabama
Reported: 3 years ago

2 hour trip in the Gulf. Made it back just in time.

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Tim Birell Summerdale, Alabama Reported: 3 years ago

2 hour trip in the Gulf. Made it back just in time.

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Jake Durant with Gulf Bay Charters
Pensacola, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

The red snapper bite has been steady but you have to put up some effort to find the sizes you need for the box. Trigger fish has opened and are plentiful but lots of smalls mixed in which is normal but not so bad. The mahi's are crazy good at...

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Jake Durant with Gulf Bay Charters Pensacola, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

The red snapper bite has been steady but you have to put up some effort to find the sizes you need for the box. Trigger fish has opened and are plentiful but lots of smalls mixed in which is normal but not so bad. The mahi's are crazy good at the moment and anything you find floating in the water is full of fish including triple tails. The vermilion snapper have come off their full moon spawn and are really biting well , squid or salted northern mackerel will do the trick. Kings are good this year and still going . Amber jacks are closed so you know will catch them one after the other. There is no blue water very close here in our neck of the woods so the trolling is kind of slow.
Inshore is never great in August because of the heat but Captain Jake is catching some redfish and trout along with flounder and mangrove snapper. The Spanish mackerel are still good as long as the bait is here.

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