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Walton county fishing report for July 22

Fishing is great! Choctawhatchee Bay area: Still good bites of speckled trout west of Hogtown. Also hybrid bass. Offshore/inshore: Good bites of snapper, grouper, and king mackerel. River: Shellcracker bite are fantastic! Click here for fishing forecast Bay and river report brought to you by Copeland’s. “Where the locals shop and the tourists are welcome.” Click here to find out more about Copeland’s. Copeland’s Gun and Tackle Shop 17290 U.S. Hwy. 331 S Freeport, Florida 32439 (850) 835-4277 Store hours:...

Walton County fishing report for July 10

Fishing is great! Choctawhatchee Bay area: Still good bites of speckled trout and redfish. Offshore: Good bites of snapper, grouper, and scamp. Surf: Scattered good bites when you find some clear pockets away from June grass. River: Fishing on the river is through the roof. Shellcracker, bluegill, Click here for fishing forecast Bay and river report brought to you by Copeland’s. “Where the locals shop and the tourists are welcome.” Click here to find out more about Copeland’s. Copeland’s Gun...

Walton County fishing report for July 2

Fishing is good! Choctawhatchee Bay: Still a few speckled trout biting on shrimp. A few redfish and good bites on black drum. Local report of bay grouper as well. River: Water is a little high, however good catches of shellcracker and bream biting on earthworms and crickets. Click here for fishing forecast Bay and river report brought to you by Copeland’s. “Where the locals shop and the tourists are welcome.” Click here to find out more about Copeland’s. Copeland’s Gun...

Great turn out for Red Bay Grocery and Nick’s Seafood Restaurants’ bream tournament

Red Bay Grocery and Nick’s Seafood Restaurant presented their 6th Annual Bream World Championships on Sat., June 14 at Red Bay Grocery. It was a great turn out with 17 teams competing in various categories including biggest bream, total weight of six bream, heaviest stringer, largest non-bream species, and junior angler. Highlights of the tournament were: First Place: Joseph Wood and Robert Bowers with a total of 3.78 lbs. Second Place: Grices’ grandsons with a total of 3.42 lbs. Third...

Walton County fishing report for June 11

Fishing is good! Choctawhatchee Bay area: Lots of redfish throughout the bay along with a few big trout. Surf: Early morning pompano biting River: Shellcracker, bass, and hybrids Click here for fishing forecast Bay and river report brought to you by Copeland’s. “Where the locals shop and the tourists are welcome.” Click here to find out more about Copeland’s. Copeland’s Gun and Tackle Shop 17290 U.S. Hwy. 331 S Freeport, Florida 32439 (850) 835-4277 Store hours: Mon. – Fri.: 6...

Nick’s Seafood Restaurant wraps-up 14th annual Speckled Trout Shootout

by Jeffrey Powell/De Funiak Springs Herald Nick’s seafood restaurant in Basin Bayou is usually a pretty quiet place on Monday nights as it is normally closed. The exception to that rule is the annual Speckled Trout Shootout fishing tournament wrap up fish fry and awards ceremony. In its 14th year now, the tournament is a nine-day affair that attracted 90 anglers to compete in eight divisions. This year the tournament had a very diverse group of anglers with both sexes...

Saltwater and freshwater license-free fishing days offered this month

Governor Scott and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Floridians and visitors will be able to fish without a saltwater recreational fishing license on June 7 and 8 and freshwater recreational fishing license on June 14 and 15. These four license-free fishing days fall near National Fishing and Boating Week, a national celebration of fishing and boating, which started June 1 and runs through June 8. The Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation’s www.TakeMeFishing.org website is a place to...

Walton County fishing report for June 4

Fishing is good! Choctawhatchee Bay area: Good size speckled trout in the western portion of the bay, some redfish, a few sheepshead and black drum eastward. River: Scattered reports of shellcracker Click here for fishing forecast Bay and river report brought to you by Copeland’s. “Where the locals shop and the tourists are welcome.” Click here to find out more about Copeland’s. Copeland’s Gun and Tackle Shop 17290 U.S. Hwy. 331 S Freeport, Florida 32439 (850) 835-4277 Store hours: Mon....