Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Golden Isles area.
Fishing for Pelagic Fish
What are Pelagic Fish?
Pelagic fish get their name from the area that they inhabit called the pelagic zone. The pelagic zone is the largest habitat on earth with a volume of 330 million cubic miles. Different species of pelagic fish are found throughout this zone. Numbers and distributions vary regionally and vertically, depending on availability of light, nutrients, dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, and pressure.
With the Gulf Stream more than 90 miles out from the Golden Isles, you will not find too many anglers fishing for pelagic species near the Gulf Stream in this area. However, if you make it out to the Gulf Stream in this area, the fishing can be very good for tuna, wahoo, mahi mahi and billfish.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
There plenty of offshore structure in the offshore waters near the Golden Isles. There are many fishing charters that will fish the offshore waters here. You may be going anywhere from 10 to 20 miles out and possibly further to fish these offshore structures. Some of the types of fish you may be targeting on the reefs and wrecks are snapper, grouper, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, amberjack, cobia, sharks, hogfish, tripletail, jack crevalle, barracuda and more.
Artificial Reef Locations
https://coastalgadnr.org/HERU/offshore
