Bradenton Beach Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Roy Johnson
St. Petersburg, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Fish mount of a monster snook from earlier this year

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Roy Johnson St. Petersburg, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Fish mount of a monster snook from earlier this year

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Tyson Wallerstein
Clearwater, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Conditions have been perfect this week for targeting snook, trout and redfish. The bay water temperature has been in the upper 60’s in the morning and mid 70’s in the afternoon. As the afternoon tide rises along with the temperature, fish become more active on the flats. Live bait action...

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Tyson Wallerstein Clearwater, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Conditions have been perfect this week for targeting snook, trout and redfish. The bay water temperature has been in the upper 60’s in the morning and mid 70’s in the afternoon. As the afternoon tide rises along with the temperature, fish become more active on the flats.
Live bait action has been spectacular in the afternoon. Concentrating efforts on flats that are holding mullet has been the key. Live chumming from an up-tide position will help you locate where the fish are holding. Patiently waiting for your free bees to swim down current into the fish will reveal boils and pops allowing you to see where to set up.
Free-line pilchards on medium light spinning gear spooled with 10-pound braid. The light braided line will not only help you sling your bait out to where the fish are, but also help you to feel any subtle bite you might have when fishing an open bail, a tactic that can be deadly effective.
Creeks that serve as wintering homes for snook are loading up with fish right now. As our next cold front passes more of the larger fish will enter the creeks. Fishing around sundown will typically give you the best opportunity to hook into some bigger fish. Live pilchards work great, and chumming will get the activity levels of the fish up, but don’t be afraid to send out a larger bait. Pinfish and or finger mullet will really get the attention of a big snook.

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Cody Williams
Sarasota, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

The inshore Spanish mackerel bite has been very hot, the triple tail bite has been hot and also the black drum bite has been great!

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Cody Williams Sarasota, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

The inshore Spanish mackerel bite has been very hot, the triple tail bite has been hot and also the black drum bite has been great!

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Alex Kirby
Bradenton, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Mangrove snapper, snook, redfish, trout, and gag grouper as the weather gets colder the gags are gonna fire off even more. Tell them to hurry up and book for a gag grouper cause the season is gonna be shorter next year and this is gonna be the last Dec we...

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Alex Kirby Bradenton, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Mangrove snapper, snook, redfish, trout, and gag grouper as the weather gets colder the gags are gonna fire off even more. Tell them to hurry up and book for a gag grouper cause the season is gonna be shorter next year and this is gonna be the last Dec we get to keep gags.

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Eric Topole
Ruskin, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

The gag grouper bite continues to be great on Tampa Bay The sheepshead are becoming more active with cooling water temperatures as always red fish and snook can be found on the flats

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Eric Topole Ruskin, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

The gag grouper bite continues to be great on Tampa Bay The sheepshead are becoming more active with cooling water temperatures as always red fish and snook can be found on the flats

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Jimmy Reagan
Holmes Beach, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Fishing is great in Northeast Alabama Lake Weiss catching largemouth bass stripers and white bass...and a few crappie

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Jimmy Reagan Holmes Beach, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Fishing is great in Northeast Alabama Lake Weiss catching largemouth bass stripers and white bass...and a few crappie

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Jim Vanderbeck
Clearwater, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Inshore has been on fire with redfish bite back on track, sheepshead are showing up in strong numbers. Offshore kingfish, Spanish, hog snapper and gags are close to shore. Best time of year to fish!!

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Jim Vanderbeck Clearwater, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Inshore has been on fire with redfish bite back on track, sheepshead are showing up in strong numbers. Offshore kingfish, Spanish, hog snapper and gags are close to shore. Best time of year to fish!!

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Craig Lahr
St. Petersburg, Florida
Reported: 3 years ago

Since the weather keeps fluctuating, most of the fish have been scattered, but are of good quality. We have been encountering Redfish, Trout and snook on the flats, but the tide and area has been crucial. Cut bat and small pinfish are working well. Artificials have been working great, bait...

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Craig Lahr St. Petersburg, Florida Reported: 3 years ago

Since the weather keeps fluctuating, most of the fish have been scattered, but are of good quality. We have been encountering
Redfish, Trout and snook on the flats, but the tide and area has been crucial.
Cut bat and small pinfish are working well. Artificials have been working great, bait such as mirror lures in the skin series such as pinfish or finger mullet have been catching all 3 inshore species. Also soft plastics like exude dart, mirror lure prevoker and gulp on 16th ounce Jighead have produced some big redfish, Trout, and Snook while we are fishing with bait has helped to locate the schools. Also be prepared for cobia or triple tail as they will show up when you least expect it. This happened to us on Tuesday with couple nice cobia.

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