Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Panama City Beach, FL area.
100-Fathom Hot Spot
The 100-Fathom Curve refers to the area along the Gulf of Mexico’s coastline where the water drops off super quick, reaching 600 foot depths. While Destin and Pensacola are a lot closer to the 600 foot depths, Panama City Beach is also within reach of this deeper water with its charter fleet.
is about 20 miles away from this area is closer to this drop-off than any other port in the Gulf of Mexico, which means anglers do not have a very far boat ride out to target a variety of deep sea fish.
You have a little further boat ride, however, there are plenty of fishing charters out of Panama City Beach that will head offshore to fish these deeper water for sailfish, marlin, wahoo, tuna, mahi mahi and more.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
There plenty of offshore structure in the offshore waters near Panama City Beach, FL. There are many fishing charters that will fish the offshore waters here. You may be going anywhere from a few miles out to more than 30 miles out to fish these offshore structures. It is a much closer boat ride than every other port in the Gulf to get out to some amazing bottom structures in very deep water.
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
Visit the reef locations on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission website.
