Florida Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Max Williams
Panama City Beach, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

The Redfish are on fire right now. We've had consistent enough weather to pattern the fish, and the water is warming up enough to keep them active. Topwater plugs is my favorite way to target these fish right now, but I'll also use swim baits and jigs. The Red Grouper...

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Max Williams Panama City Beach, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

The Redfish are on fire right now. We've had consistent enough weather to pattern the fish, and the water is warming up enough to keep them active. Topwater plugs is my favorite way to target these fish right now, but I'll also use swim baits and jigs. The Red Grouper bite was on fire this last week with the couple of good weather days we had, and the Vermilion Snapper and Triggerfish have been consistent all month. Red Snapper and Amberjack are easy to find, but until their season, we'll keep targeting other species. Spanish Mackerel are starting to get caught in the bay, but I expect it to be April 1st before the bite fires off.

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Austin Nikkola
Jacksonville, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

With warming water temperatures and steady tides, the redfish are in full feeding mode. Early mornings have been prime for topwater action, with Reds crushing Zara Spooks and MirrOlure Top Dogs over shallow flats. As the sun gets higher, we’ve been switching to paddle tails in gold, root beer, and...

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Austin Nikkola Jacksonville, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

With warming water temperatures and steady tides, the redfish are in full feeding mode. Early mornings have been prime for topwater action, with Reds crushing Zara Spooks and MirrOlure Top Dogs over shallow flats. As the sun gets higher, we’ve been switching to paddle tails in gold, root beer, and new penny, rigged on 1/8 to 1/4 oz jigheads for sight-casting fish cruising the oyster bars and creek mouths.

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Austin Nikkola
Jacksonville, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

With warming water temps and steady tides, the redfish are in full feeding mode. Early mornings have been prime for topwater action, with Reds crushing Zara Spooks and MirrOlure Top Dogs over shallow flats. As the sun gets higher, we’ve been switching to paddle tails in gold, root beer, and...

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Austin Nikkola Jacksonville, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

With warming water temps and steady tides, the redfish are in full feeding mode. Early mornings have been prime for topwater action, with Reds crushing Zara Spooks and MirrOlure Top Dogs over shallow flats. As the sun gets higher, we’ve been switching to paddle tails in gold, root beer, and new penny, rigged on 1/8 to 1/4 oz jigheads for sight-casting fish cruising the oyster bars and creek mouths.

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Matthew Cavalieri
Delray Beach, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

Fishing has been awesome lately! Spring is in the air. The last few trips have been great. Few of the guys got their first and biggest peacocks ever; another guy caught his PB largemouth. Everyone is catching and happy 😃

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Matthew Cavalieri Delray Beach, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

Fishing has been awesome lately! Spring is in the air. The last few trips have been great. Few of the guys got their first and biggest peacocks ever; another guy caught his PB largemouth. Everyone is catching and happy 😃

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Aaron Highers
Port Orange, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

Offshore trips have been great. Less fish on the 4-hour trips and more fish on the 6-8-hour trips.

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Aaron Highers Port Orange, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

Offshore trips have been great. Less fish on the 4-hour trips and more fish on the 6-8-hour trips.

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Aaron Highers
Port Orange, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

Offshore trips have been great. Less fish on the 4 hour trips and more fish on the 6-8 hour trips.

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Aaron Highers Port Orange, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

Offshore trips have been great. Less fish on the 4 hour trips and more fish on the 6-8 hour trips.

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Brian Kmiotek
Delray Beach, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

Clowns, peacocks, and Sunshine Bass bite have been great first thing in the morning on live Shad.

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Brian Kmiotek Delray Beach, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

Clowns, peacocks, and Sunshine Bass bite have been great first thing in the morning on live Shad.

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Matt Fueyo with Reel Tight Fishing Charters
Sarasota, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

We've been back and forth between snook/redfish and snapper/sheepshead fishing. The cold front shut down the white bait, but the shrimp eaters remain hungry! If you're ready to jump on board and have some fun with us today!

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Matt Fueyo with Reel Tight Fishing Charters Sarasota, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

We've been back and forth between snook/redfish and snapper/sheepshead fishing. The cold front shut down the white bait, but the shrimp eaters remain hungry! If you're ready to jump on board and have some fun with us today!

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