Big Pine Key Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Mark Baumgarten with Cowboy Cowgirl Sport Fishing Charters
Key West, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

This night they went out for a sunset, tuna trip and limited out on Black fin tuna this was one of the big butter balls estimated to be over 20 to 25 pounds on (light Tackle)

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Mark Baumgarten with Cowboy Cowgirl Sport Fishing Charters Key West, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

This night they went out for a sunset, tuna trip and limited out on Black fin tuna this was one of the big butter balls estimated to be over 20 to 25 pounds on (light Tackle)

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Antonio Estenoz
Key West, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

Goliath Grouper is the biggest grouper in the grouper family. It can grow 500+ lbs, here is some I've caught I the past months. Usually found by rocks and wrecks so tough to get to the boat which make for a great challenge.

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Antonio Estenoz Key West, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

Goliath Grouper is the biggest grouper in the grouper family. It can grow 500+ lbs, here is some I've caught I the past months. Usually found by rocks and wrecks so tough to get to the boat which make for a great challenge.

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Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West
Key West, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

Here are a verity of depths and big fish. 🎣 unfortunately I don't have any measurements of the fish. All are species I often catch, so I can say they are waaayy above average sized. The Mahi was on a slow slow day. 3hrs of trolling on our 35' Carolina...

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Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West Key West, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

Here are a verity of depths and big fish. 🎣 unfortunately I don't have any measurements of the fish. All are species I often catch, so I can say they are waaayy above average sized. The Mahi was on a slow slow day. 3hrs of trolling on our 35' Carolina Classic without a bite. Just as we were planning to "switch gears" and anchor up for some bottom fishing, we spotted one lone frigate bird. 🦅 as we passed under the bird, our downrigger got slammed. Its first run was long and fast, we immediately assumed it was a wahoo. Our angler jumped up from half napping position and started cranking. After fighting for about 15min I got a glimpse of color from the bridge, it was one of the biggest bull mahis I've ever seen. Gaf shot from our mate Sam was perfect, and so were the tacos. One of my life long best friends was visiting key west and helping me with some boat and home maintenance. Luckily one of his last days in town, we had a perfect (2mph wind) day. We could not pass up the opportunity to run out deep. After some adjustments to our bottom reader we started marking fish on the bottom in 900'. Tommy attached the gator clips to 12v and down went the big lead to the bottom. Almost immediately our rod bent over and we knew it was the one we wanted. It was not the subtle bite we often see. After watching the electric reel do all the work, we got beautiful golden reflection of this massive golden tile.

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Anthony Del Valle with Kilo Whiskey Charters
Key West, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

Winter time fishing is amazing in key west. we had southwest winds, so we took it to the gulf side to see about catching cobia and snapper. As soon as we got to the spot, we spotted a pack of cobia on the surface.. we promptly got to work. Our...

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Anthony Del Valle with Kilo Whiskey Charters Key West, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

Winter time fishing is amazing in key west. we had southwest winds, so we took it to the gulf side to see about catching cobia and snapper. As soon as we got to the spot, we spotted a pack of cobia on the surface.. we promptly got to work. Our anglers captured two beautiful cobia and a bunch of lanesnapper. Great bite and adrenalin filled action on this four hour morning fishing trip. I sent the boys home with several bags of fish for their cook your catch dinner.

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Hunter Ledbetter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

The news from Key West really is our winter fishing has picked up Cobia, mackerels, wahoo, and sail fish starting

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Hunter Ledbetter Key West, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

The news from Key West really is our winter fishing has picked up Cobia, mackerels, wahoo, and sail fish starting

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Robert Horachek
Big Pine Key, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

Grand Slam from yesterday

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Robert Horachek Big Pine Key, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

Grand Slam from yesterday

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Craig Hassell
Key West, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

Here are a few photos from recent catches. The January catch has been hot on both the reef and in blue water.

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Craig Hassell Key West, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

Here are a few photos from recent catches. The January catch has been hot on both the reef and in blue water.

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Ryan Carter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 10 months ago

Winter time fish are in full swing and yellow jacks are on top of the list. November-March is the best time of year to target this remarkable specie. They are a very fast hard fishing fish that run in large schools around the reef and shallow structures inshore. Yellow jacks...

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Ryan Carter Key West, Florida Reported: 10 months ago

Winter time fish are in full swing and yellow jacks are on top of the list. November-March is the best time of year to target this remarkable specie. They are a very fast hard fishing fish that run in large schools around the reef and shallow structures inshore. Yellow jacks are also great to eat making them a high value target. There has been a few Cobia being caught on the shallow wrecks this week along with snappers and barracudas. A live pinfish on a jig head is hard to beat to target those species.

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