West Palm Beach Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Craig Korczynski
West Palm Beach, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

January was a wild month hot, cold, windy, calm we experienced it all. So many different conditions led to many different species and situations to target fish. Lots of bent rods and smiles. Snook fishing was great the past week lots of small fish but an abundance of them along...

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Craig Korczynski West Palm Beach, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

January was a wild month hot, cold, windy, calm we experienced it all. So many different conditions led to many different species and situations to target fish. Lots of bent rods and smiles.
Snook fishing was great the past week lots of small fish but an abundance of them along with multiple Spector snook being caught. Mangrove shorelines, docks and bridges all areas holding linesiders. Live baits, Rapala twitch baits and flies all got the snook hooked on the line.
Schools of jacks, mackerel, bluefish, blue runners and many other species made great rod bending action. Shrimp, bucktail jigs, DOA Terror Eyz and Rapala skitter walks all great lure choices.
Well that is the fishing report for the past week, hope you all enjoyed. Remember you can’t catch them from the couch, so get out there and get hooked up. Tight Lines!

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Shawn Safris
Boca Raton, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Its been a little slow but there are still so pretty good days mixed in.

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Shawn Safris Boca Raton, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Its been a little slow but there are still so pretty good days mixed in.

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Dino Torino with Only on a Fly
Jupiter, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Snook fishing has been very good Fat, Tarpon & Common Snook Feeding on small Minnows

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Dino Torino with Only on a Fly Jupiter, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Snook fishing has been very good
Fat, Tarpon & Common Snook
Feeding on small Minnows

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James Coane
Hatteras, North Carolina
Reported: 2 years ago

Fun day in the Loxahatchee River watershed Jupiter Florida

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James Coane Hatteras, North Carolina Reported: 2 years ago

Fun day in the Loxahatchee River watershed Jupiter Florida

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Doug Harris
Loxahatchee, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Okeechobee bass fishing is picking up,with some bigger females showing up in the reeds and under mats,the peacock bass in the inland lakes and canals,took a hit with the cold weather, resulting in some fish kills,but overall,still a bunch of them.clown knife fish have been very active also,the speckled perch...

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Doug Harris Loxahatchee, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Okeechobee bass fishing is picking up,with some bigger females showing up in the reeds and under mats,the peacock bass in the inland lakes and canals,took a hit with the cold weather, resulting in some fish kills,but overall,still a bunch of them.clown knife fish have been very active also,the speckled perch on okeechobee have been doing god,kinda hit and miss with the higher water the lakes holding,but if you find them,you can catch them!!

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Craig Korczynski
West Palm Beach, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Cold air! South Florida gets another cold blast, water temperatures dropped and the winds prevailed. Winter time fishing is full of ups and downs in the Palm Beaches. Slow down and stay persistent, you will catch fish. Backwater fishing for snook always great areas to locate fish as water temperatures...

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Craig Korczynski West Palm Beach, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Cold air! South Florida gets another cold blast, water temperatures dropped and the winds prevailed. Winter time fishing is full of ups and downs in the Palm Beaches. Slow down and stay persistent, you will catch fish.
Backwater fishing for snook always great areas to locate fish as water temperatures are typically warmer. Mangrove shorelines, muddy bottoms snook flock to these zones, live baits, small jigs and twitch baits all tactics to get the strike. Anglers can also target sea walls, docks and bridges working the bottom thoroughly with jigs and live baits dropped to the bottom.
Inlets and channels are holding tarpon on both sides of the tides. Live baits and jigs entice the tarpon to strike. Cleaner water on the high tide causes the tarpon to be finicky at times. Juvenile tarpon prevalent in the backwaters along mangrove shorelines, strike live baits and twitch baits worked slow near pot holes drop offs.
Flats, rock piles, and inshore wrecks great areas to target snapper, jacks, blue runners, drum and many other species. Shrimp and jigs both create rod bending action for anglers.
Well that is the fishing report for the past week, hope you all enjoyed. Remember you can’t catch them from the couch, so get out there and get hooked up. Tight Lines!

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Carl Bousquet
Boca Raton, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing been decent in lake Ida Osborne chain here in Delray Florida. Bass, peacocks and some clown knife fish

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Carl Bousquet Boca Raton, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Fishing been decent in lake Ida Osborne chain here in Delray Florida. Bass, peacocks and some clown knife fish

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Craig Korczynski
West Palm Beach, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Superb weather the past week made for great days on water. Plenty of sunshine and moderate wind days anglers enjoyed sunshine and rod bending action. Channels and backwaters held plenty of tarpon, the bigger Tarpon finicky at times allowed anglers to witness tarpon temperament. Primarily due to the full moon...

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Craig Korczynski West Palm Beach, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Superb weather the past week made for great days on water. Plenty of sunshine and moderate wind days anglers enjoyed sunshine and rod bending action.
Channels and backwaters held plenty of tarpon, the bigger Tarpon finicky at times allowed anglers to witness tarpon temperament. Primarily due to the full moon the bite was hit and miss but the juvenile tarpon do have the same mind set as bigger fish at times, they like to eat if baits is around. Live baits and Rapala twitch baits.
Snook fishing was awesome the past week lots of small fish but all four species of snook were caught. Docks also held schooling fish, live baits and jigs worked around pilings got the strike. Fly fishing for snook for multiple days with anglers made for lots of surface strikes and great takes next to the boat.
Rock piles and wrecks held plenty of snapper, drum and schools of jacks, bluefish, lady fish and runners. Jigs and shrimp worked near the bottom got hit almost every drop, creating bent rod and happy anglers.
Well that is the fishing report for the past week, hope you all enjoyed. Remember you can’t catch them from the couch, so get out there and get hooked up. Tight Lines!

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