Speckled Trout Fishing Reports (December 2025)

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Fishing report from Nick H. in Tampa, Florida Book a trip with Captain Nick here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Tim K. in Pensacola, Florida Book a trip with Captain Tim here.

11/20/2024 Jack Crevalle, Redfish, Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Ruben R. in South Padre Island, Texas Book a trip with Captain Ruben here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing been great on the flats. We have been catching Reds and Speckled trout. We have been using both lures and bait.

Fishing report from Mackie B. in New Orleans, Louisiana Book a trip with Captain Mackie here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

11/20/2024 Black Drum, Redfish, Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Keith B. in Panama City, Florida Book a trip with Captain Keith here.

Speckled Trout Fishing in Panama City, Florida

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Tim R. in Naples, Florida Book a trip with Captain Tim here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Terry G. in Matagorda, Texas Book a trip with Captain Terry here.

11/20/2024 Flounder, Speckled Trout

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Kenny K. in Melbourne, Florida Book a trip with Captain Kenny here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Kyle E. in Belhaven, North Carolina Book a trip with Captain Kyle here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Speckled trout fishing has been as good as it gets. Sightfishing redfish has been good when the weather permits. The fish are falling into their winter patterns and the water is clearing up on the Pamlico Sound.

Fishing report from Owen W. in Melbourne, Florida

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Cold water fishing has begun trout drum and sheepshead on the menu

Fishing report from Robert D. in Tarpon Springs, Florida Book a trip with Captain Robert here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Sheepshead and trout bite has been on fire!

Fishing report from Jorge F. in Miami, Florida

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing has been good but the high winds have kept us mostly inshore. Inshore the sea trout, spanish mackerel and snapper bite has been good. When we've been able to get off shore kingfish and bonitas have kept us busy. The sailfish are here and the bite will continue to improve as we get more cold fronts coming through.

Fishing report from Joe B. in Holmes Beach, Florida Book a trip with Captain Joe here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

Redfish and trout action is heating up as the water and weather cool off!

Fishing report from Dexter E. in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida Book a trip with Captain Dexter here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

The youngest guy in the picture of three was 81 years old. I hope I'm as blessed as they are to still be able to do what I love to do at their age.

Fishing report from Matthew L. in New Smyrna Beach, Florida Book a trip with Captain Matthew here.

11/17/2024 Speckled Trout

Since hurricane Milton the water has been super high. But the fish have been chewing. We are catching alot of nice trout and redfish.

Fishing report from Mark R. in Crystal River, Florida Book a trip with Captain Mark here.

11/14/2024 Speckled Trout

11/14/2024 Spanish Mackerel, Speckled Trout

11/14/2024 Black Drum, Flounder, Speckled Trout

11/14/2024 Speckled Trout

11/14/2024 Spanish Mackerel, Speckled Trout

11/14/2024 Speckled Trout

11/14/2024 Spanish Mackerel, Speckled Trout

Water is cooling off and the fishing is getting hot.

Fishing report from James G. in Sarasota, Florida Book a trip with Captain James here.

11/14/2024 Redfish, Spanish Mackerel, Speckled Trout

Fall is her. Both inshore and nearshore fishing seems to be pretty dang good post hurricane.

Fishing report from Jamie R. in Trails End, North Carolina Book a trip with Captain Jamie here.

11/14/2024 Speckled Trout

Reds trout and flounder is allways the norm while fall fisbing here at wrights ille beach. While speckled trout fishing makes up the lionshare of success large reds slot fish flounder blues inside as well as some king mackerel and false albacore in the near ocean waters. Should be doing more striped bass fishing as well as trout and reds through the wi ter!

Fishing report from Charles B. in Galveston, Texas Book a trip with Captain Charles here.

11/13/2024 Black Drum, Redfish, Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Wade O. in Tampa, Florida Book a trip with Captain Wade here.

11/13/2024 Speckled Trout

Fall Has Finally Arrived Until recently, we hadn’t had any typical fall weather here in the Tampa Bay area, but it’s finally here. Most of November’s water temperatures remained in the mid-70’s. Usually, by now the water temperature on the grass flats is in the low 70’s to upper 60’s Snook are still open to harvest until the first of December, so you only have a couple of weeks to take advantage of it. My clients are still catching plenty of snook. Some are in the slot of 28 to 33 inches, but most are just under or over the keeper slot. Oscar Santana and Kinh Shiau fished with me earlier this month and Oscar caught and released a 34” snook unharmed. It turns out, Oscar had never fished before and this snook was the first fish he’d ever caught. Unbelievably, he continued to out fish Kinh during the rest of the charter. Talk about beginner’s luck, now Oscar is ruined for life… The redfish action continues to please. Schools of redfish are still plentiful, but now I’m encountering more rat reds. I don’t have a problem with that because they’re still fun to catch and if you never have, they’re a blast. Riley found that out himself recently when he caught his first redfish. When looking to take one home for dinner though, I move on in search of bigger fish. There are still larger fish around, I just have to do a little looking. Seatrout, out of all the inshore species, remain the most dependable, as far as, fish for dinner. It’s been a banner year for seatrout, and I look for that trend to continue right through the end of the year.

Fishing report from Shawn S. in Gulf Shores, Alabama Book a trip with Captain Shawn here.

11/13/2024 Speckled Trout

11/13/2024 Redfish, Speckled Trout

11/13/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Randy S. in Aransas Pass, Texas Book a trip with Captain Randy here.

11/13/2024 Redfish, Speckled Trout

11/13/2024 Speckled Trout

11/13/2024 Redfish, Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Aaron H. in Port Orange, Florida Book a trip with Captain Aaron here.

11/13/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Austin N. in Jacksonville, Florida Book a trip with Captain Austin here.

11/13/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing report from Brandon D. in Cape Coral, Florida Book a trip with Captain Brandon here.

11/20/2024 Speckled Trout

11/13/2024 Speckled Trout

Fishing ahead of a cold front is one of my absolute favorites. The barometric pressure gets to a perfect point before fronts come through and these fish feel it and get extremely active. Cold fronts can cause fish to go into a lethargic state where they have no energy or motivation to chase or eat baits. Imagine for a second you wake up and you feel bloated, nauseous even, your initial reaction is not to get out of bed and eat a big breakfast, instead you lay around for as long as it takes to feel well again. This feeling in that scenario is very similar to what fish feel after a low pressure system blows through, they have to work to keep a balance and have no problem sitting around until the pressure builds back and they feel comfortable again. They tend to eat like they’re going into hibernation for a few days because essentially that is the case. As for the day we had before our most recent front, the fish had no quit in them, it seemed like every bait for 3-5 hours was getting bit. We caught tons of redfish, snook and trout in just a matter of a few hours. The trout were huge, most over 20 inches, redfish ranged in size but many between 19 and 25 inches. We caught a lot of snook too, most in the mid 20’s and a couple over 30. I had my brother out and we were on a mission to get meat for a family fish fry. We did our job, we limited out on all three species and the family will have a fine fish fry in the coming days.

Late fall is an epic time to fish our waters, the snook are fully back in the inshore waters and hungry after all the work they put in during their spawning season. You will frequently find long, skinny female snook looking to get their figure back after giving birth to the next generation of snook. We have been catching our bigger snook on large greenbacks we refer to as turbos, these bigger baits are irresistible to those bigger slot and overslot snook. Beef up your leader because you will need it with some of these monsters, I typically step it up to 40 lb Fluorocarbon which is less susceptible to abrasion when those fish shoot under structure. Redfish are still schooling up towards the tail end of their spawn, mostly the mid to upper slot fish are what we have found around the mangrove islands, oyster beds and docks. Pinfish are hard to pass up but they will certainly eat greenbacks as well. Trout over grass flats and edges of bars and channels have been pretty good, just lacking in size at times. We have been targeting those trout with gulp shrimp under a popping cork. They absolutely love those baits but just about anything will work. At times when the wind is blowing it is best to use a bait you can slow retrieve like a shrimp immitation bait. We are starting to head into a change in season, cold fronts are pushing through and soon we will see a change in bait, tide heights and target species. As we begin seeing lower winter tides we will switch to shrimp and focus more on sheepshead as they make their way into our inshore waters to spawn.

Speckled Trout Fishing Reports (December 2025)

Where is the best Speckled Trout fishing right now? Check out the latest Speckled Trout fishing reports across all our locations below.

Fishing report from Nick H. in Tampa, Florida Book a trip with Captain Nick here.

Fishing report from Tim K. in Pensacola, Florida Book a trip with Captain Tim here.

Fishing report from Ruben R. in South Padre Island, Texas Book a trip with Captain Ruben here.

Fishing report from Mackie B. in New Orleans, Louisiana Book a trip with Captain Mackie here.

Fishing report from Keith B. in Panama City, Florida Book a trip with Captain Keith here.

Fishing report from Tim R. in Naples, Florida Book a trip with Captain Tim here.

Fishing report from Terry G. in Matagorda, Texas Book a trip with Captain Terry here.

Fishing report from Kenny K. in Melbourne, Florida Book a trip with Captain Kenny here.

Fishing report from Kyle E. in Belhaven, North Carolina Book a trip with Captain Kyle here.

Fishing report from Owen W. in Melbourne, Florida

Fishing report from Robert D. in Tarpon Springs, Florida Book a trip with Captain Robert here.

Fishing report from Jorge F. in Miami, Florida

Fishing report from Joe B. in Holmes Beach, Florida Book a trip with Captain Joe here.

Fishing report from Dexter E. in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida Book a trip with Captain Dexter here.

Fishing report from Matthew L. in New Smyrna Beach, Florida Book a trip with Captain Matthew here.

Fishing report from Mark R. in Crystal River, Florida Book a trip with Captain Mark here.

Fishing report from James G. in Sarasota, Florida Book a trip with Captain James here.

Fishing report from Jamie R. in Trails End, North Carolina Book a trip with Captain Jamie here.

Fishing report from Charles B. in Galveston, Texas Book a trip with Captain Charles here.

Fishing report from Wade O. in Tampa, Florida Book a trip with Captain Wade here.

Fishing report from Shawn S. in Gulf Shores, Alabama Book a trip with Captain Shawn here.

Fishing report from Randy S. in Aransas Pass, Texas Book a trip with Captain Randy here.

Fishing report from Aaron H. in Port Orange, Florida Book a trip with Captain Aaron here.

Fishing report from Austin N. in Jacksonville, Florida Book a trip with Captain Austin here.

Fishing report from Brandon D. in Cape Coral, Florida Book a trip with Captain Brandon here.