Bradenton Beach Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Wade Osborne
Tampa, Florida
Reported: 11 months ago

Even though the sheepshead spawning season doesn’t start until February, the cooler water temperatures have them feeding very aggressively. On a recent charter, my clients specifically requested sheepshead, and the day did not disappoint. On the very first cast of the day, they reeled in a 16-inch keeper. Throughout the...

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Wade Osborne Tampa, Florida Reported: 11 months ago

Even though the sheepshead spawning season doesn’t start until February, the cooler water temperatures have them feeding very aggressively. On a recent charter, my clients specifically requested sheepshead, and the day did not disappoint. On the very first cast of the day, they reeled in a 16-inch keeper. Throughout the charter we must have caught close to 30 sheepshead, along with numerous redfish, seatrout, and snook. At the end of the day, they went home with six nice sized keeper sheepshead. If you enjoy catching redfish, now is the perfect time to catch plenty. Even though most are rats, “under slot-sized redfish” they are still fun to catch. The same can be said for seatrout. Clients have been catching some of the largest seatrout of the year recently. Seatrout schoolup in the winter, so when you hit the right spot numerous fish in the 15 to 19-inch slot range can be landed. Snook are also making their presence known. I’m finding snook mixed in with the redfish and seatrout also. Snook are closed to harvest until March 1st, so it’s strictly catch and release.

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Steven Herich
Sarasota, Florida
Reported: 11 months ago

Here's some pics of some beautiful Redfish caught from the beach last weekend.

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Steven Herich Sarasota, Florida Reported: 11 months ago

Here's some pics of some beautiful Redfish caught from the beach last weekend.

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Matt Fueyo with Reel Tight Fishing Charters
Sarasota, Florida
Reported: 11 months ago

The bite has been productive. Inshore and nearshore bite has produced snappers that will reopen Jan 1. The redfish snook and trout are gorging on white bait before the water gets too cold. Good fishing good fun filling coolers

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Matt Fueyo with Reel Tight Fishing Charters Sarasota, Florida Reported: 11 months ago

The bite has been productive. Inshore and nearshore bite has produced snappers that will reopen Jan 1. The redfish snook and trout are gorging on white bait before the water gets too cold. Good fishing good fun filling coolers

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Matt Karwoski
Belleair Bluffs, Florida
Reported: 11 months ago

One day, two charters.

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Matt Karwoski Belleair Bluffs, Florida Reported: 11 months ago

One day, two charters.

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Alex Kirby
Bradenton, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

Happy thanksgiving

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Alex Kirby Bradenton, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

Happy thanksgiving

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Cody Beckman
Tampa, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

Inshore fishing and backcountry fishing has been extremely productive, averaging 30 fish days and the cooler water has redfish, trout and big snook fired up. The nearshore wrecks are holding good numbers of mangrove snapper and sheepshead with some spanish mackerel mixed in Weather has been ideal and looks to...

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Cody Beckman Tampa, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

Inshore fishing and backcountry fishing has been extremely productive, averaging 30 fish days and the cooler water has redfish, trout and big snook fired up. The nearshore wrecks are holding good numbers of mangrove snapper and sheepshead with some spanish mackerel mixed in Weather has been ideal and looks to stay that way for the next few weeks. Definitely a great time of year to get on the water

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Matt Fueyo with Reel Tight Fishing Charters
Sarasota, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

Nearshore and inshore fishing has been on fire. We have been seeing some big schools of redfish moving through our waters. Snook are cruising the rocks in the jetties. Nearshore fishing has been fun. Gag groupers, lane snappers, mangroves and muttons too! Super fun on light tackle!

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Matt Fueyo with Reel Tight Fishing Charters Sarasota, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

Nearshore and inshore fishing has been on fire. We have been seeing some big schools of redfish moving through our waters. Snook are cruising the rocks in the jetties. Nearshore fishing has been fun. Gag groupers, lane snappers, mangroves and muttons too! Super fun on light tackle!

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Scott Flinn
Bradenton, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

The near shore bite has been really good catching a pile of lain snapper a few mangrove snapper a lot of grouper that are just throwbacks and some really nice hogfish, Inshore is redfish snook and trout The bite has been very good these cold fronts will slow it down...

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Scott Flinn Bradenton, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

The near shore bite has been really good catching a pile of lain snapper a few mangrove snapper a lot of grouper that are just throwbacks and some really nice hogfish, Inshore is redfish snook and trout The bite has been very good these cold fronts will slow it down we will start sheepsheeps fishing soon

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