Yellowstone River Fishing Reports (December 2025)

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Fishing reports straight from our guides in Yellowstone River

Hunter Ledbetter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

It's been a lot of lobsters, hook-n-cook muttons and Lanes, and a nice Palometta. Wreck fishing and the tuna are holding steady in March.

Hunter Ledbetter Key West, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

It's been a lot of lobsters, hook-n-cook muttons and Lanes, and a nice Palometta. Wreck fishing and the tuna are holding steady in March.

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John Jackson with Reel Easy Fishing Charters
Key West, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

Fishing has been good.

John Jackson with Reel Easy Fishing Charters Key West, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

Fishing has been good.

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Brad Simonds
Key West, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

Recent catches.

Brad Simonds Key West, Florida Reported: 8 months ago

Recent catches.

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Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West
Key West, Florida
Reported: 9 months ago

Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West Key West, Florida Reported: 9 months ago

Even with the high winds, we have managed to find decently calm water holding lots of fish. Inshore and patch reefs are full of big lane snappers, yellowtails, mangroves, and, of course, the out-of-season groupers. Offshore is a little funny this year. The tuna have shown up, and the mahi seem like they are going to stick around this winter. Some days have been a bit slow in the deep blue water, so trolling the reef has provided us with plenty of mackerel action.

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Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West
Key West, Florida
Reported: 9 months ago

Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West Key West, Florida Reported: 9 months ago

Even with the high winds we have managed to gind decently calm water holding lots of fish. Inshore and patch reefs are full of big lane snappers, yellowtails, mangroves, and of course the out of season groupers. Offshore is a little funny this year. The tuna have showed up, and the mahi seem like they are going to stick around this winter. Some days have been a bit slow in the deep blue water, so trolling the reef has provided us with plenty of mackerel action.

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Hunter Ledbetter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 9 months ago

We've had some warm weather, so some good lobster catches on trips. The patch reef fishing is still very strong, with nice catches of yellowtail snapper and cero mackerel

Hunter Ledbetter Key West, Florida Reported: 9 months ago

We've had some warm weather, so some good lobster catches on trips. The patch reef fishing is still very strong, with nice catches of yellowtail snapper and cero mackerel

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Hunter Ledbetter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 9 months ago

Hunter Ledbetter Key West, Florida Reported: 9 months ago

Here are a couple of updates Solid Cero and Yellowtail snapper bites on the reef this morning in key west. Those should hold around for another month. We've had a good run of some nice warm weather in Key West temperatures getting into the high 70s low 80s. Still a lot of good lobster going on lobster season for two more months. we have been having some exceptionally good weather in Key West, highs have been in the low 80's the offshore fishing has been a little slow. A few wahoo, tuna and scattered mahi being caught. I've been diving some and get lots of lobsters and Lionfish

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Chris Gowens
Key West, Florida
Reported: 9 months ago

Mahi tuna wahoo and sailfish offshore and still decent action on the reef.

Chris Gowens Key West, Florida Reported: 9 months ago

Mahi tuna wahoo and sailfish offshore and still decent action on the reef.

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★★★★★
We took our team out with Hunter for a combo lobstering and deep sea trip and he didn't let us down! First and foremost, Hunter is an ex-marine who is incredibly on top of his equipment, his boat, and his safety and was very clear about expectations for the day and what we should be doing at any point in time. After a quick scuba diving refresher & safety brief we put on our gear for a dive and were rewarded with a number of keeper lobsters, a bigger number of lobsters that were too small to keep, a lionfish which we speared, and too many great wildlife sightings to count including a big loggerhead turtle, a black grouper, and a nurse shark hoping for a handout. After the dive we put our gear away we drove a few miles further out to catch some yellowtail snapper. We started slow, but pretty soon were reeling in a yellowtail almost every cast. We probably caught 20-25 within a few hours, as well as a small yellow jack, a parrotfish, and an undersized red grouper. Lastly, we decided to use the last hour of our trip to try to hook into a big black grouper using some of our yellowtail as bait. This was a bit of a "go big or go home" bet and unfortunately didn't pay off for us this time - I wish we'd had a bit more time to drift and I'm sure we would have hooked one. Overall can't speak highly enough of Hunter and the experience diving and fishing in the Keys. There is such a variety of things to do that even on a full day trip you will never feel bored and can always pivot to something else. We even chased a frigate bird and threw some bucktails in the middle of the day at some bait that was busting. You won't go wrong booking a trip with Hunter.
Attison B. | November 5, 2025

Trip: Full Day Offshore - 30' Seahunter
★★★★★
Frank was awesome, very engaging helpful and patient. We had a great trip on the Madison. We will definitely do it again.
Jeremy T. | August 31, 2025

Trip: Full Day Float (Multiple Rivers)
★★★★★
We had a great trip with Jordan. He was patient with beginning fly fishermen and told good stories. We caught several small trout on our trip.
Shane L. | July 31, 2025

Trip: Yellowstone River Float Trips
★★★★★
I can only highly recommend Hunter - we booked a spearfishing trip out West and had an absolutely great time. Hunter knew the area inside out, is a great captain with lots of experience, had high quality gear, and we saw (and shot) a lot of fish, mostly grouper. Highly recommend and will be back!
Raimund R. | June 8, 2025

Trip: Full Day Offshore - 30' Seahunter
★★★★★
captain hunter was awesome and courteous- and accommodating being a couple of newbies to fishing we learned a few things. I would recommend Captain hunter to everyone, and would enjoy going on another trip with him again.
Hans-Jurgen G. | February 9, 2025

Trip: Full Day Offshore - 30' Seahunter
★★★★★
Captain Steve and mate Stan are the best they put us on the fish and we will definitely be back
Jason R. | September 25, 2024

Trip: Key West Sportfishing Adventure
★★★★★
Chris & Will were great. Knowledgeable, professional, engaging and put us on the fish. Would highly recommend this charter.
Doug B. | September 11, 2024

Trip: Key West Sportfish Trip
★★★★★
Great day on the water, Captain Mark and mate Will were awesome. They put me on fish and stayed out until the last minute. I would definitely recommend.
Nicholas W. | August 8, 2024

Trip: Key West Deep Sea Run - 40' Luhrs
★★★★★
Great float trip!
Emmet D. | July 18, 2024

Trip: Yellowstone River Float
★★★★★
Was a great trip, got on some nice fish. Got surprised by a large school of smaller mahi mahi but had fun with the instant hook up and seemed to last a good bit. Captain was great, very knowledgeable and supplied drinks if we needed any. The boat was clean and spacious for the both of us and had plenty of rods in the water.
Tony P. | July 12, 2024

Trip: Full Day Offshore - 30' Seahunter

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