Indian River Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Travis Glidden
Aransas Pass, Texas
Reported: 1 year ago

Fishing has been very good, with redfish and drum activity feeding on shrimp and crabs. Lots of tailing pods and single cruising fish

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Travis Glidden Aransas Pass, Texas Reported: 1 year ago

Fishing has been very good, with redfish and drum activity feeding on shrimp and crabs. Lots of tailing pods and single cruising fish

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Mark Haley
Jupiter, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

We caught 30 blackfin, 2 sails and mahi on Saturday

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Mark Haley Jupiter, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

We caught 30 blackfin, 2 sails and mahi on Saturday

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Craig Korczynski
West Palm Beach, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

Mid December, whoever thought we would get a tropical depression in south Florida this time of year. Lots of rain and wind have been the main story the past week. There are many places we can hide and fish, but 45 to 50 winds are not fun. A few days...

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Craig Korczynski West Palm Beach, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

Mid December, whoever thought we would get a tropical depression in south Florida this time of year. Lots of rain and wind have been the main story the past week. There are many places we can hide and fish, but 45 to 50 winds are not fun.
A few days that we were able to get out dodging rained and wind, the snook were plentiful in the backcountry, targeting mangrove, shorelines and deep channels, using Live bait and Rapala, shadow wrap, and X wrap twitch baits. A mixed bag of species of snook common, fat and sword spine, great catches for anglers due to the weather.
The jacks and bluefish are still plentiful in the channels and deep holes using DOA 3” shad tail and top water Rapala skitter walks for best results. With the cool fronts, pushing into the South Florida area, we will be receiving migration fish, like mackerel and Pompano to add to the fun.
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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Matthew Lee
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

Black drum have shown up and ate hungry. The redfish bite still remains good as they start schooling up. And last but not least some flounder are arriving and the trout bite still remains good throwing artificial at them.

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Matthew Lee New Smyrna Beach, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

Black drum have shown up and ate hungry. The redfish bite still remains good as they start schooling up. And last but not least some flounder are arriving and the trout bite still remains good throwing artificial at them.

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Travis Glidden
Aransas Pass, Texas
Reported: 2 years ago

There have been a lot of fish on the flats, but cloudy skies make it challenging. Still possible to get out and catch some great fish

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Travis Glidden Aransas Pass, Texas Reported: 2 years ago

There have been a lot of fish on the flats, but cloudy skies make it challenging. Still possible to get out and catch some great fish

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Neal Goodrich
Oak Hill, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

My latest report is titled Thanksgiving Week. The weather was windy, the water was a little choppy in spots and the sun peeked in and out of the clouds a little each day... But it might as well have been raining redfish! That's how many we caught! The first day...

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Neal Goodrich Oak Hill, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

My latest report is titled Thanksgiving Week. The weather was windy, the water was a little choppy in spots and the sun peeked in and out of the clouds a little each day... But it might as well have been raining redfish! That's how many we caught! The first day (Wednesday), i took out Chad and Kari for a few short hours. They brought 9 redfish, 2 snook and a few mangrove snapper to the boat. It was Kari's day and everywhere she cast she was catching the reds! Poor Chad was a good sport about it, even though Kari gave him her spot on the bow he still didn't catch one. Friday Art and his grandson Daniel got a bit of a late start on another partly cloudy and windy morning but the wind died down a little and we got on the redfish on the first stop and before the morning was over they had caught 30 head of reds, a 20 inch trout, 4 snook and 7 mangrove snapper. WOW!!! They were sure some happy fishermen when we got back to the dock! If this is any indication of what is to come, the redfish season is going to be fantastic!

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Matthew Lee
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Trout and redfish bite has been on fire all month. Fish pods of mullet on flats edges and bars. Topwater Bute has been great first of the morning and live bait and soft plastics later in the morning.

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Matthew Lee New Smyrna Beach, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Trout and redfish bite has been on fire all month. Fish pods of mullet on flats edges and bars. Topwater Bute has been great first of the morning and live bait and soft plastics later in the morning.

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Hunter Bach
Oak Hill, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Fall is a magical time if year on the flats. As the cold fronts begin to hit and the water temperature drops, the shallow grass flats of mosquito lagoon begin to flood with the larger redfish and and numbers of trout that have been in deeper water most of the...

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Hunter Bach Oak Hill, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Fall is a magical time if year on the flats. As the cold fronts begin to hit and the water temperature drops, the shallow grass flats of mosquito lagoon begin to flood with the larger redfish and and numbers of trout that have been in deeper water most of the summer. The seatrout spawn throughout the late fall, and into early spring. It is not uncommon to find a group of 20 or more over-slot trout sunning on a patch of hard bottom ready to inhale almost any presentation. As for the redfish, instead of the singles, pairs, and small groups of mostly slot fish we find in the warmer months, we now get the opporunity to target redfish upto and over 30” in less than a foot of water and find schools of more than 50 redfish cruising around together. And last but not least, with the cooler water temperaturs, the fish feed on the flats all day long! Book now to chase the schools of shimmering copper redfish and wolf like packs of gator trout!!

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