Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Cape San Blas / Port St. Joe 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.
To get to the deeper waters that are known for holding billfish, tuna and wahoo, you need to go out into the federal controlled waters. The fishing is very good out there though for tuna, wahoo, mahi mahi and billfish, however, since it is such a far boat ride out from Port St. Joe, there aren’t too many boats that will go out and fish for the pelagic species here.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
There plenty of offshore structure in the offshore waters near Port St. Joe. 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 50 miles out 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
Visit the reef locations on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission website.
