Where: Apalachicola, Florida
There’s a magical place—spanning roughly two hundred miles of coastline between Pensacola and Panacea—where schools of redfish practically explode off the Gulf’s surface. The Florida Panhandle is one of the world’s undisputed fishing meccas, with its bays and inlets harboring as many riches as an ocean. Beyond redfish you’ll find speckled trout, Spanish mackerel, tarpon, cobia, bluefish, and jack crevalle, not to mention grouper and red snapper swimming in the reefs and wrecks. Farther offshore await mahi-mahi, wahoo, tuna, marlin, and sailfish. In other words, it’s a big fish story in the making.
