Thread: Powell Lake (dune lake), what do you know?

My wife son and I are going to be staying at a condo west of Panama City Beach during mid march, sbut on the good side our condo is at Pinnacle Port on the shores of the Gulf AND Powell Lake. Anybody have experience?

I have no information on that lake but I would advise you to avoid the Gulf side and the bay side pier in St. Andrews State Park.

Just heard (second hand) about good fishing around the "Phillips Inlet" (when it is open).
Your best bet looks to be around the remnant pier west of the inlet...
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2677.../data=!3m1!1e3

Just curious as to why you would say avoid the piers at St. Andrews? Can you expand a bit.

We were going to go to St. Andrews at Christmas but life issues interfered with that plan.

The bay side pier is at a busy boat ramp and the water is shallow and the color of Lake Shelby. The Gulf side pier doesn't hardly clear the bar and the end was covered with dozens of people on floats all under and around it. The guys walking up and down slinging cast nets didn't help much either. The only place that was worthwhile to me was the County pier and it was a far cry from the GSSP pier. Pier#'r's spot looks really promising.

Thirty years ago, the Gulf side St. Andrews pier was fishable for bonito, kings, and spanish (your success rate was not high but at or before dawn there was hope). It helped to camp so you got there before the gates to the park opened. That brings back memories.

I never fished the jetty much because the wife wanted to be on the beach near me. That's where I would fish today (and after 35 years the wife could care less where I go to fish as long as she has the car).

Could be a few spanish showing up mid March. City Pier is not all that far away. Search Pier Park, and well, the shopping is close enough to the pier. You also do not need fishing licenses on the large Florida piers. If you fish from surf, you need a saltwater license, in fresh, a freshwater license.

well ill be fishing all over the hurricane demolished pier juest west of the inlet, depending on how it is right now the inlet could be open or not, talked to a local bait guy down there he said he fishes powell lake all the time and in the east end people can catch largemouth near the rivers that spill in, then on the south near the inlet its brackish and all the saltwater species reside there. he said a week ago they caught a 89# goliath off the bridge...thought wow what a neat place, then i learned about dune lakes and how rare they are only to there madagascar australia and new zealand...but i think the fishing should be good, high tide hitting the old pier and then work a doa shrimp on a popping cork around the inlet and bayside in the inlet, fresh live shrimp or ghost shrip around the pier in case of sheeps, looks like it could hold resident fish if waters deep enough