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Panama City Beach

30.19°N · 85.83°W

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Conditions
Time
12 PM
Now
Score
80
Good
Tide
0.2 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
8 kn
ESE · steady
Sea state
Easy
1 ft @ 4 s SE
Air temp
79°
Warm
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 12 PM. Score 80 Good. Tide 0.2ft Falling ▼. Current -1.3kn Ebb. Wind 8kn ESE G13. Sea 1 ft @ 4 s SE Easy. Air 79.3°.

Why this score

Current
Slack
Prime

Current regulations

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What you can keep at this spot today

Red Drum
Retention open
Daily limit
1 per day
Possession
Not published
Size
18–27" slot
Gear
Legal gear: hook and line, cast nets. Spearing/gigging/bowfishing/snatch hooking and multiple hooks with natural bait prohibited.
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Slot 18-27 inches total length. 1 fish per person per day; 4 fish vessel limit. Captain and crew bag limit prohibited on for-hire trips. 4 fish per person transport limit on land. Must remain whole until landed. Commercial harvest prohibited.
Other species here
Spanish Mackerel Retention openCommon Snook Retention openSpotted Seatrout Retention open
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Source: FWC · Florida Gulf State Waters: Panhandle Region · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Red Drum is best at this spot

Shoulder seasonShoulder season for Red Drum
~7 more weeks in shoulder
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SHORE PROFILE

FISHED FROM
Beach
ACCESS
On foot
No boat needed
GETTING THERE
Use the numbered public beach access points along Front Beach Road with small parking lots. Walk over the dune crossovers to the surf.
HOW IT'S FISHED
Surf casting cut bait on a fish-finder rig

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Anderson Bayou
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About Panama City Beach

Panama City Beach is a stretch of open Gulf beach on the Florida Panhandle, where anglers work the surf line for a mix of inshore and nearshore species. Spanish Mackerel run the longest season here, peaking from March through October, while Spotted Seatrout peak in spring from March to May and again in November. Red Drum peak from August through October, and Common Snook round out the list of targets along this shoreline. Mackerel respond to metal jigs, gotcha plugs, and small spoons cast into the surf, and trout take soft plastic jerkbaits, paddle tail grubs on jigheads, and topwater walking plugs worked along the beach. For Red Drum, gold spoons and jigheads with paddle tails cover water from the sand, and cut mullet or blue crab halves fished on the bottom hold redfish in the wash.

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