I am going to a friends wedding on the beach. I figured if I am staying at a beach house might as well bring the rods. Does anyone know what fish are biting in the surf and if you can catch bait with a cast net this time of year.
thanks for any info

There should be some reds and drum in the surf. If you want to catch fish on every cast, put some dead shrimp in the second gut for whiting. Not sure what you would catch in the cast net.

I went there last summer. There are some good spots to wade fish the Santa Rosa Sound If you drive down towards the National Sea shore. Its east of pensecola about two or three miles.

bunch of smacks. use silver spoon on wire leader.

In Pensicola this time a year there are tons of fish in the surf. You can throw small castmaster spoons and catch Ladyfish, Hardtails, Spanish Macks and a few other species. Take some topwaters with you like a Yo-Zuri Hydro pencil and cast it from the beach. You will catch anything from small sharks, bluefish, redfish, etc. Rent a kayak and paddle past the third sand bar and your fishing world will change forever with a large topwater :), just make sure you take a lifejacket and strap your rods down some how.

Good Luck

JUNKIE

Spanish, bluefish, sharks, gafftops and always a shot at a Pompano (get/dig some sand fleas)

We fished the surf there last year. We caught some pompano on sand fleas but you've got get wayy out there past the second sand bar.

Oh yeah and there is a pretty good seafood restaraunt named flounders chowder house in pensacola beach.

thanks guys
all I cought were some hard heads, not to much time to fish they had me working the hole time. I did see people catching lots of pompanos on the sand fleas. Do we have those sand fleas here in Texas??

going there for vacation on the 22nd staying at the hilton on the beach can,t wait to get out on the beach as the sun is coming up and soaking some sand fleas.