sleepyluke

I just got back from Perdido and did some fishing while we were there. Was talking to a guy at work who is going to Destin in a few weeks and was going to offer to let him take some of the fishing stuff down to fish while they are there. HE said that every other time they have been there there is no fishing from the beach, even people getting run off by whatAPPEAR to be gw or some other enforcement type official. Is it illegal, frowned upon, or can do down there? We were thinking of going down next year, but if you can't fish, we won't even consider it. I am not trying to stat the whole fishing brings in big sharks to the swimmer debate, but that is what it seems to stem from. Any clue?

jedisme

You see those signs alot around Henderson Beach, you can always fish the jetties in Destin.

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Sailor50

You can fish anywhere you want on the beaches in Destin. However, people can also swim anywhere they want too and is kinda useless to fish here on any of the public beaches from about 9:00 AM to after 5:00 pm due to the number of people.

If you want to surf fish during these hours, I would go to either Henderson Beach state park, the east pass (jetties), the Air Force undeveloped part of Okaloosa island -part between the Destin Bridge and Ft Walton), Navarre Beach/Gulf National Seashore (between Navarre and Pensacola beach), or Topsail Hill State Park beach. Some swimmers there but lot more space. The western part of Henderson beach state park is off limits to fishing, but you can fish the eastern part unless that new pavilion/parking lot is done, not sure in that case.

There are people here who say their property extends to the water on the beach and the beach is private property. Florida state law says all beach is public up to the high water mark, and the city of Destin says the beach20' up from the edge of the water is public. Read this article for more information (http://www.thedestinlog.com/news/bea...sn-access.html) Some of the beach vendors (umbrella guys) will tell you to move, but you have a right if you stay within 20'of the waters edge. They are just trying to make a living too, so just use common sense and courtesies, and you wont have a problem. There are numerous public beach access points too here in Destin - go to: (http://www.cityofdestin.com/index.ph...;category=Main).

If I am going to fish the beach, i go early in the morning, or late in the evening, or fish one of the places I mentioned above. Besides, really hot down here now, over 100 past few days.

As far as shark fishing, I would go to one of the undeveloped beaches, some guys fish the Navarre beach all the time and have good luck there.