Indian River Fishing Reports (December 2025)

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

As April comes to an end, the weather is hot and the fishing is too. Mild winds, clean water, and lots of bait are a recipe for successful fishing. Tarpon are always on the radar for anglers, silver kings are abundant around mangrove shorelines and drop offs. Live boats free...

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

As April comes to an end, the weather is hot and the fishing is too. Mild winds, clean water, and lots of bait are a recipe for successful fishing.
Tarpon are always on the radar for anglers, silver kings are abundant around mangrove shorelines and drop offs. Live boats free lined and Rapala twitch baits entice strikes. Moving water is the key to happy tarpon and happy anglers with a bent rod.
Snook fans, the bite is getting better each weeks as water temps warm up and baits schools start migrating in. Natural structures, docks and sea walls are all holding schooling fish. Rapala twitch baits and live baits get the drag screaming.
While targeting snook and tarpon, anglers are catching many other species: Jacks, ladyfish, moonfish, snapper and many others. The highlight the past week as has been catching triple tail a surprise flounder.
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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Dino Torino with Only on a Fly
Jupiter, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Offshore is heating up. Albies are getting bigger & plentiful Now we just need the wind to stop blowing.

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

Offshore is heating up. Albies are getting bigger & plentiful
Now we just need the wind to stop blowing.

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Travis Glidden
Aransas Pass, Texas
Reported: 2 years ago

The sun finally came out and the wind stopped blowing. Tides are coming up and putting lots of feeding fish in very shallow, clear water. They have been a little picky about what flies they want, but they are aggressively chasing shrimp

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Travis Glidden Aransas Pass, Texas Reported: 2 years ago

The sun finally came out and the wind stopped blowing. Tides are coming up and putting lots of feeding fish in very shallow, clear water. They have been a little picky about what flies they want, but they are aggressively chasing shrimp

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Hunter Bach
Oak Hill, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

We are still catching good numbers of slot to over slot redfish on the flats along with trout over 20" and numbers of smaller trout in deeper water. The reds on the flats are beginning to transition into their summer patterns. The schools are breaking up and instead of a...

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Hunter Bach Oak Hill, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

We are still catching good numbers of slot to over slot redfish on the flats along with trout over 20" and numbers of smaller trout in deeper water. The reds on the flats are beginning to transition into their summer patterns. The schools are breaking up and instead of a few shots at 50 fish we can get 20+ shots at singles. This can mean more technical presentations but if it were easy it wouldn't be worth doing! Although, with more intermediate anglers, pitching live mullet to laid up and cruising redfish and trout is very effective. The snook fishing is beginning to heat up; on the night trips we are getting good numbers in the dock lights and starting to catch some tarpon in the 20-40 lb. class. Throughout the month we will be seeing more snook on the flats. By the end of May, tarpon season will be in full effect for mosquito lagoon and new Smyrna beach. Dates are already filling up fast so make sure to reserve your dates now to tangle with the silver king this summer or sight fishing the flats of mosquito lagoon.

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Rick Hilliard
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Water clarity is down, so redfishing has slowed a bit, but still seeing quite a few tails. The snook bite has picked up and some juvy tarpon are starting to move in

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Rick Hilliard New Smyrna Beach, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Water clarity is down, so redfishing has slowed a bit, but still seeing quite a few tails. The snook bite has picked up and some juvy tarpon are starting to move in

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Todd Vivian
Edgewater, Florida
Reported: 2 years ago

Ponce inlet and New Smyrna Beach, still seeing a few Bull Reds in the inlet with some nice snook and Tarpon beginning to show on the evening charters. We offer a seasonal 3 hr. Evening trip where we target snook and Tarpon around the causeways in New Smyrna Beach. Water...

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Todd Vivian Edgewater, Florida Reported: 2 years ago

Ponce inlet and New Smyrna Beach, still seeing a few Bull Reds in the inlet with some nice snook and Tarpon beginning to show on the evening charters. We offer a seasonal 3 hr. Evening trip where we target snook and Tarpon around the causeways in New Smyrna Beach. Water levels are up a bit and sight fishing has been fair in the north part of the lagoon. This is the option you want if you wish to tangle with the red or black drum on fly.

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

April has sprung and inshore fishing is hopping along as water temperatures warm and bait schools start to migrate to our local waters. Tarpon fishing is fantastic targeting channel edges, docks, and mangrove shorelines. Schooling fish can be seen on the surface rolling, live baits and DOA Terror Eyz great...

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

April has sprung and inshore fishing is hopping along as water temperatures warm and bait schools start to migrate to our local waters.
Tarpon fishing is fantastic targeting channel edges, docks, and mangrove shorelines. Schooling fish can be seen on the surface rolling, live baits and DOA Terror Eyz great baits to present to them. Both sides of the tides produce a good bite, tarpon are ranging from 5 to 50 pounds.
Seawalls and mangroves have been the hot spot for targeting snook. Live bait and Rapala twitch baits get the strike. Schooling fish can be found near heavy structures, producing all four species of snook.
Freshwater bite has been producing awesome peacock bass action using Rapala twitch baits and live baits. Seawalls and docks best areas to locate peacocks. Clownknife fish are abundant along channel edges and bridges. DOA Terror Eyz great bait to produce many strikes.
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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Joe Clouse
Aransas Pass, Texas
Reported: 2 years ago

Floundering is in spring mode! High tides are normal. Flounder are 16-19" and sitting very shallow.

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Joe Clouse Aransas Pass, Texas Reported: 2 years ago

Floundering is in spring mode! High tides are normal.
Flounder are 16-19" and sitting very shallow.

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