Naranja Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Jason Calhoun
Key Largo, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

The snapper and triggerfish bite are on fire right now. The Permit are schooled up on the reefs. The sharks and barracuda are putting on a show as well.

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Jason Calhoun Key Largo, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

The snapper and triggerfish bite are on fire right now. The Permit are schooled up on the reefs. The sharks and barracuda are putting on a show as well.

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Chris Parthemore
Tavernier, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Reef and wreck bit have been in fire here in Islamorada , multiple African pompanos , nice sized mutton/mangrove snapper , and smoker king mackerel a have made for great action morning and afternoon at the wrecks . The reef has been producing some flag yellowtail, yellow Jack , and...

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Chris Parthemore Tavernier, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Reef and wreck bit have been in fire here in Islamorada , multiple African pompanos , nice sized mutton/mangrove snapper , and smoker king mackerel a have made for great action morning and afternoon at the wrecks . The reef has been producing some flag yellowtail, yellow Jack , and even a few nice muttons there to . Overall solid week

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Yoan Alvarez
Miami, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing has been great, the peacock bass is great on the urban canals as on the Everglades, with days of 50+ fish with some of giants 5+ range, large mouth bass has been good as well with numbers and fish close to double digits on Lake Okeechobee

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Yoan Alvarez Miami, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing has been great, the peacock bass is great on the urban canals as on the Everglades, with days of 50+ fish with some of giants 5+ range, large mouth bass has been good as well with numbers and fish close to double digits on Lake Okeechobee

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Chris Parthemore
Tavernier, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Patch reefs have been providing some sizable mutton snapper , big mangroves , yellow tail and mackerel . African please pompano bite is back on with a few good size fish, and inshore snook have been stewing along with some nice mangroves and tarpon.

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Chris Parthemore Tavernier, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Patch reefs have been providing some sizable mutton snapper , big mangroves , yellow tail and mackerel . African please pompano bite is back on with a few good size fish, and inshore snook have been stewing along with some nice mangroves and tarpon.

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Yoan Alvarez
Miami, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing has been good overall, slow down for a couple of days for the peacock bass do it to the cold front bit everything went back to normal, largemouth been good as well on Lake Okeechobee with some big ones

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Yoan Alvarez Miami, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing has been good overall, slow down for a couple of days for the peacock bass do it to the cold front bit everything went back to normal, largemouth been good as well on Lake Okeechobee with some big ones

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Maurice Young
Lauderhill, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Key Largo to Marathon Mid January 2023 Happy New Years to all from our wonderful Hawks Cay Resort location. Fishing over the holidays up till now has been spectacular in the Florida Keys, between Key Largo & Marathon. Just about everything is biting now on the reef / wrecks &...

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Maurice Young Lauderhill, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Key Largo to Marathon Mid January 2023
Happy New Years to all from our wonderful Hawks Cay Resort location. Fishing over the holidays up till now has been spectacular in the Florida Keys, between Key Largo & Marathon. Just about everything is biting now on the reef / wrecks & offshore. The predominant bite offshore has been sailfish, wahoo, king mackerel & mahi-mahi or dolphin fish as we like to call them. Uncharacteristically for this time of year, we’ve been slamming the dolphins offshore between 120 feet - 300 feet while trolling wrecks looking for wahoo. For whatever reason they are showing up, I’m totally happy about it.
The sailfish are here! They are around in good numbers between 100 - 180 feet & we’ve been getting multiple releases a day. Most of them have been caught either kite fishing, slow trolling live bait or pitching live ballyhoo at bait showers. The king mackerel have been caught in the same manner as the sailfish.
Like I said on my last report, it’s wahoo fishing time & onboard the Ace of Spades we’ve been catching them. Then bite has been up / down the outer edge of the reef & around the deep water wrecks between 115 feet - 250 feet of water. Trolling Normad plugs around 9 knots, high speed trolling lures with various size trolling weights & live bait fishing has been working for us.
On the reefs & wrecks, the Yellowtail snapper / mutton bite has still been consistent on the reefs between 45- 90 feet of water. This is also the best time of year for patch reef fishing.

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Armando Alejo
Lehigh Acres, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

recently aboard, Ms Jeniffer picked up this bruiser of a #redfish at 8.5 lbs it’s a great catch for us in the #flamingoeverglades It was released to fight again

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Armando Alejo Lehigh Acres, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

recently aboard, Ms Jeniffer picked up this bruiser of a #redfish at 8.5 lbs it’s a great catch for us in the #flamingoeverglades It was released to fight again

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Maurice Young
Lauderhill, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing in the last couple of weeks has been outstanding in the Florida Keys, between Key Largo & Marathon. The water is cooling down & the bite is in full swing on the reef / wrecks & offshore. The predominant bite offshore has been sailfish & blackfin tunas. The sailfish...

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Maurice Young Lauderhill, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing in the last couple of weeks has been outstanding in the Florida Keys, between Key Largo & Marathon. The water is cooling down & the bite is in full swing on the reef / wrecks & offshore. The predominant bite offshore has been sailfish & blackfin tunas. The sailfish have finally been showing up in good numbers between 100 - 180 feet & it’s only going to continue to get better as we get deeper into the season. We’ve been catching most of them slow trolling live bait & pitching live ballyhoo at bait showers. The blackfins are still super thick on the humps & it’s been nothing but pure fun! We are catching them in just about every way possible from trolling feathers, to live bait pilchards, to slow pitch jigging the Mobster! ( Captain Maurice’s secret weapon- try them) It’s also wahoo fishing time & I’ve been hearing of a few being caught. We onboard the Ace of Spades will actively start fishing for those hard fighting, tasty torpedoes throughout the holidays, so hopefully I’ll have something good to report on the next fishing report.
On the reefs & wrecks, the Yellowtail snapper / mutton bite has still been consistent on the reefs between 45- 90 feet of water and on the deeper water wrecks in 100 plus feet. Also the Spanish, cero, & king mackerel bite has been insane on the patch reefs out to the deeper reefs.

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