South Florida Fishing Reports (July 2026)

Big snook in Everglades National Park 40 inches

Luckiest guy I ever met took a trip to the Everglades and caught a gator trout congratulations my brother and thanks for visiting Joeyflatsfishing.com

South Florida Fishing Report Offshore action has been steady, with mahi fishing producing decent results in depths ranging from 900 to 1,500 feet of water. Anglers are finding success around broken debris and floating seaweed lines, where schools of mahi have been holding. Both artificial lures and live baits have been effective, giving fishermen plenty of opportunities throughout the day. On the reef, the snapper bite has really started to heat up. Yellowtail snapper have been the primary target, with solid catches of mangrove snapper and mutton snapper as well. We’re also still picking away at some quality red and...

The bottom bite has been on fire with mutton snapper black grouper and some nice gags. We also caught lots of Blacfin tuna limiting out a couple days with some fish in the 20 pound range and one over 30 pounds. The sailfish showed up today.

Here's a recent customer who came to catch some peacocks and we were able to get on some

5/29/26 hot reef bite big yellow tails and a stud mangrove

Night time tarpon fishing in miami still hot
Big ap and cobia on the wrecks in miami

The offshore bite has been great a lot of action also the reef has been on fire catching snappers and some grouper

Here's a few pics from the last couple of weeks.

Bites been great, especially on Peacock Bass and