Where to catch snook redfish flounder in Florida

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This webpage will show you where to catch snook, redfish, flounder, tarpon and spotted sea trout in Florida. There are fishermen's photos and brief descriptions of the places where the fish were caught. You can also find out the baits and lures used to catch the fish in the pictures.

The few of my favorite areas like, the Everglades/Flamingo Southern Region, the Charlotte Harbor/Tampa Bay West Central Region and the Cedar Key/Steinhatchee North West Region are also covered in detail.

Where to catch snook, redfish, flounder, sea trout and tarpon in Florida.

This photo was sent in by Michael of an awesome snook 3for that he and his buddies Jason and Louis caught during the mullet run. These fish were caught off of Melbourne Beach using spooltek lures. This photo also won our snook photo contest.

Brandon sent in this nice photo of a double header flounder catch. These Jacksonville flounder won Brandon our grand prize package for one of our monthly photo contests that we run. Fillet and release to the grease those flounders!!!

Thaddeus sent in this photo of a kayak fishing tournament winning redfish that he caught in Fernandina Beach. This red was caught in 20 feet of water using a First Light snook jig and was 41.5 inches long. This photo also won him a fishyourassoff.com prize package.

Alexis caught this nice Titusville redfish using a live pin fish in about 25 feet of water. It only took about 20 minutes of fishing to catch this great looking red drum. This photo also won her a prize package from a fishyourassoff.com photo contest. Nice one.

Dylan sent us in this picture of a this 36 inch sideliner that he caught at first light. This picture won Dylan a grand prize package for BEST SNOOK photo in a recent contest. This snook thumped a 1.5 ounce jig right under his boat in about 15 feet of water next to the fenders under the Stuart Causeway. That's a fatty!!

Will sent in the great picture of a Matanzas Inlet redfish that won him a grand prize in a recent photo contest. This redfish was caught using a mud minnow on a jig head in less than 3 feet of water.

Bull sharks are all around Florida's inshore estuaries, river mouths and inlets. Big females like this one swim into the inlets from the ocean and gulf side to have their pups in the relative safety of shallow water.

This one was about 6 feet long and ate a big piece of cut mullet on the bottom. It took me about 40 minutes but she finally gave in.

No, it wasn't a bull shark like the one above that crushed this monster snook. It was a dolphin! Jon was fishing for snapper under the Stuart Causeway using pilchards when this snook slammed his bait. Before he could get it in a dolphin decided to make a quick snack of this snook. WOW!!

Gaven sent us in this picture of a beautiful redfish that won him a grand prize package for one of our photo contests. This red was caught in the No Motor Zone of the Indian River. He caught this 32 inch fish in 3 feet of water using a live mullet. Nice one.

Dylan sent in this nice snook that he caught in the Jupiter Inlet. He was throwing a jerk bait with a 1/8 ounce head in about 2 feet of water when this beauty hit. He also won our best snook photo contest with this one.

Nick sent us in this picture of a Sebastian Inlet snook that he caught using a 2 oz. Jr's custom jig two hours into the outgoing tide. The temperatures were mild but the tide was fast moving. He had the biggest snook landed on the north pier that night.

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Keith sent in this great picture of an African Pompano. He caught this African Pompano off of St. Lucie Inlet in about 120 feet of water. They were out searching for sailfish when they caught this very pleasant surprise. That's a nice one.

Larry caught this nice big snook in the St. Lucie inlet using live pilchards. The snook flood to the inlets in the summer time to spawn so big sows like this one can be plentiful. This photo also won Larry our prize package for best snook photo.

Emily caught this nice bass in the pond behind her house in Port St. Lucie. This bass fell for a white buzzbait right as the sun was beginning to set. Nice one.

Drew sent us in this nice looking Indian River Lagoon snook. He caught this snook using a DOA shrimp in about 3 feet of water. He was fishing the river a little bit north of Midway Road when this snook slammed his lure.

Emily caught this nice snook on the west side of the Indian River near Jensen Beach. She was using a live mullet on a 3/0 circle hook and a 20 lb. leader and 20 lb. braid. It was almost high tide when this linesider slammed her mullet offering.

Laura caught this big snook off of the South jetty of the Fort Pierce Inlet. She was using a red, white and blue 1 1/2 ounce flare hawk. She hooked this sow right at dead low tide and it put up one heck of a fight around those rocks. Her pole was rigged up with 20 lb. mono and a 50 lb. leader. Nice one Laura!!!

My friend battled this jumping tarpon with a 30 lb. braid and a 50 lb. flourocarbon leader. This monster tarpon fell for a free lined live pinfish on a 5/0 circle hook. Their bony mouths allow them to shake out many hooks to the horror of tarpon anglers.

Notice the horizontal rod placement on the jump. Giving a tarpon slack line on its jumps yields a lot more tarpon catches because they can't cut your line with their gill plates as effectively. This is know as bowing to the king because tarpon are also known as silver kings.

Derek sent us in the monster 42 inch plus Juno Beach snook. He caught this sow using a live sardine, 30 lb main line and a 40 lb. leader. This snook slammed his sardine offering in about 10 feet of water off of the beach. Nice one Derek.

Capt. James Cronk of 772 Fly and Light Tackle Charters sent in the great picture of a pretty trout he caught. This trout weighed 6.5 pounds and was caught on the outgoing tide with a pink popper. He was fishing north Fort Pierce in about 6 feet of water.

This awesome picture down the gullet of this trout won Capt. Cronk from the picture above one of our best trout photo contests. What a cool picture.

Stephen sent us in this amazing picture of a monster spotted sea trout that won him our grand prize package in our photo contest. He caught this trout fly fishing in the Melbourne grass flats on the outgoing tide. AND he did it all from his stand up paddle board. NICE FISH!!

Mike from High Flies 386 Fishing Charters caught this beautiful red fish fly fishing from his kayak. He used his canoe to stealth up to and sight cast to this great looking Mosquito Lagoon red drum. Nice one.

Bobby sent in this photo contest winning largemouth bass picture. This bass was caught during a bass tournament on Blue Cypress. He was using a june bug burner worm and it was caught in about 3 feet of water. She weighed 6 pounds plus and he was using a 50 lb braid.

Melissa caught this monster bull redfish at the Sebastian Inlet. She caught this bruiser at 3 a.m. using cut bait in about 15 feet of water. That is a great looking fish and it deserved a kiss.

Corey sent us in this picture and was one of our grand prize package winners for a recent redfish photo contest. This monster 60 inch red was caught in the Mosquito Lagoon on an incoming tide. He was using a live mullet under a 3 ounce sinker and it took him about 20 minutes to get it to the boat.

Nick sent in this picture of a Titusville area black drum. He sight casted to this drum using a DOA paddle tail soft plastic and a light jig head while wading the flats. This was the only one of many that he saw on that day that would eat. That's the way it goes sometimes.

Nick from the picture above also caught this decent sized trout on the same fishing trip to Titusville. This trout fell for a red and white top pup from mirro lure. This was his first fish of the day. What a great way to start out your day of fishing. This cool looking picture won him a prize package in one of our best trout photo contests.

Capt. Bucky Goldman of Bag 'Em Fishing Charters sent us in this picture of a nice black drum. He caught this black drum sight casting a live shrimp to it in the Indian River. He was using a 15 lb. braid and a 20 lb. fluorocarbon leader. This photo also won him one of our best photo contests.

Bobby sent in this picture of a black drum that he caught in Titusville. There is a pretty neat story behind it. He had just gotten back to the states from a tour in Iraq and someone he had never met before took him out fishing. He was using fresh blue crabs for bait and managed to reel in this big ugly. Thank you for your service Bobby.

Jessica sent us in this photo of her very first slot sized snook that she ever caught. She caught this snook fishing a live mullet up against a Juno Beach sea wall. The fish weighed 13 pounds and was caught with 65 lb. braid and a 9/0 hook. Congratulations on your first snook Jessica.

Linda battled this big jack crevalle on 8 pound test and a 20 pound fluorocarbon leader. She was using a live pilchard and a 3/0 bait hook fishing in about 4 feet of water. It took her about 20 minutes to get this pig in. NICE JACK!

Eric sent us in this nice 32 inch Ponce Inlet snook photo. He caught this snook using a live shrimp on the river side in about 20 feet of water. Nice one!

Kevin and Scott sent in this awesome picture of some good sized black drum that they caught a mile or so offshore on a wreck. The wreck is outside of the Matanzas Inlet. They were using live shrimp with a sinker to get it down to the fish.

Jonathen sent us in this picture of another big ugly that he caught in Mosquito Lagoon. This black drum was 37 inches long and weighed in around 18 pounds.

Dex sent in this trout contest winning photo of a fish that he caught in New Smyrna. This trout weighed 8 1/2 pounds and was 27 3/4 inches long. He caught this pig in Turnbull Bay free lining a live mullet over an oyster bar in about 3 feet of water.

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Dennis sent us in this neat looking picture of a nice redfish that he caught near Haulover Canal. He was using cut mullet in about 30 feet of water in the middle of the day on a 65 lb. PowerPro braided line.

Capt. Rick Martin from Razor Fin Charters sent in this photo of a big ugly that won him one of our black drum photo contests. He caught this black drum using a 20 lb. braid and a 20 pound leader. This fish weighed over 35 pounds and was a little over 44 inches long. It was caught using a live shrimp on a jig head in the Banana River in 10 to 14 feet of water.

This monster redfish ate a jack crevalle cut in half fished on the bottom. My buddy has found himself a secret honey hole for huge reds. This red was caught north of Sebastian Inlet and took about 25 minutes to get in on 12 lb mono and a 20 lb flourocarbon shock leader.

Jed sent us in this great picture of a wahoo that he caught out about 55 miles off of Matanzas Inlet. He was trolling a Black Bart lure when this 45 lb. wahoo slammed into his bait. The fight was one of the best of his life. You just gotta love catching wahoos.

Keith and Kevin sent in this picture of a bluefish bonanza. They were fishing off of the beach in Flagler Beach and were casting silver spoons into a bluefish feeding frenzy. The frenzy lasted for 45 minutes and then they were gone.

Mike sent in the nice fly rod trout picture. This is his biggest 4 wt fly rod trout and he caught it in the early morning in the Mosquito Lagoon. There were plenty of tailing reds around and this belly crawling 30 inch trout was in with them. That's a nice trout.

It feels so good to finally get one of these guys to the boat. Tarpon have a very bony mouth which makes it hard to set the hook. Two out of every three hook ups got off on this day. This tarpon hit a large chunk of cut mullet on the bottom with a 3/0 circle hook in the intracoastal waterway in Port St. Lucie.

Nick sent in this Merritt Island redfish that he caught while wading the flats. He was using a pearl white paddletail and a glow 1/8 ouonce jig head to catch this bad boy. He caught it in about 2 feet of water and estimates that it was 34 to 36 inches long.

This monster 43 inch snook was caught by Jonnie and her friend John in the St. Lucie Inlet at high tide. The bait used was a ladyfish head on the bottom. It took about 45 minutes to get this huge snook in because she was only using 12 pound mono. What a great fish!!

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Joshua caught this great looking trout in the Mosquito Lagoon using a banks lure. That fish looks close to 30 inches. Nice one!

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Vincent sent us in this great picture of a redfish that he caught using a fly rod. He caught this beauty in the Mosquito Lagoon using a seaducer fly, 8wt TFO and a Shadow Fly reel. What a great looking fish.

Hannah sent us this photo of the biggest fish she ever caught. This monster black drum took 1 1/2 hours to reel in because she hooked in on her whiting rod. This Fernandina Beach drum was caught in 25 feet of water on a piece of dead shrimp.

Marc sent us in this great picture of a small goliath grouper that he caught in the Mosquito Lagoon. He saw this fish in a pothole in about two feet of water. He was able to stealth up to the fish in his kayak and present it with a 4 inch Mr. Wiffle soft plastic. These small goliath groupers are quite often inshore getting big so that they can go out and compete for a nice patch of reef offshore. If you ever catch a big goliath grouper it is illegal to land them because it can cause them internal injuries.

Michael sent us in the great picture of a night time snook that he caught near the old Palm City bridge. He was using a storm lure and this pig actually broke his Penn rod during the fight but he got her in the end. He caught it on the outgoing tide right at the shadow line of the lights.

Kalob sent us in this picture of a redfish that he caught from the north causeway bridge in New Smyrna. This red was 47 inches long and weighed between 30 and 40 pounds. He caught it at high tide using a live mullet and his reel was full of 80 pound braid.

James sent us in the great picture of a 12 lb. 31 inch trout that he caught on the grass flats behind Harbour Branch Oceanographic Institute. He's a Vero Beach local and he caught this monster trout on a zara spook with 6 lb. test and a 30 lb. fluorocarbon leader on the ebb tide. Great fish James!

Kevin sent us in the picture of a shark that he caught off of Flagler Beach. He used his kayak to paddle the bait out past the sand bar and was using cut mullet.

This nice sized blue fish fell for a piece of cut mullet on a 1/0 circle hook tossed up by the mangroves. On this day the blues were up in the creeks and off of the flats because the wind was roaring at about 25 mph.

Joshua sent us in this picture of a nice trout he was able to stealth up to in his fishing kayak. He was in the Indian River Lagoon in the morning sight fishing the flats. He saw a school of nice trout sun bathing on a sand bar in 1 to 1 1/2 feet of water. He tossed his go to Banks Dock Boss Silver Halo lure to the school and pulled this bruiser out.

Scott sent us this picture of a nice 36 inch red that he caught in about 40 feet of water offshore of the Matanzas Inlet. He was fishing with light tackle and caught this awesome redfish using a dead finger mullet on the bottom.

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Ronnie sent in this great picture of about a 7 pound large mouth bass. He caught this big girl fishing the stick marsh in Fellsmere. He was using a rapala shad rap deep diver plug and 12 lb. test and caught it on the last cast of the day. That's a good way to end the day.

Erik sent us in this picture of a 54 inch red drum that he caught off of the Jacksonville Beach City Pier on an outgoing tide. He was using a piece of cut mullet and it took him about 25 minutes to get this pig in. Nice fish!

Sometimes the mackerel bite can be amazing in the intracoastal waterways and right off of the beach from Jupiter to Sebastian. The Peck's lake area just south of the St. Lucie Inlet seems to be the best spot to catch decent sized mackerel like this one for most of the year. Just make sure to use a wire leader or you will lose 8 out of 10 of your rigs.

Tim sent us this great photo of a Boynton Beach Inlet snook. This snook was caught using a live goggle eye in about 15 feet of water right as the tide switched over to incoming. He fought this fatty for about 15 minutes before getting it in.

This is what happens when a balsa wood lure battles a monster jack crevalle. This top water lure lost the war against a very large jack right outside of the St. Lucie inlet. It's time to go with a plastic lure.

Aaron sent us in the beautiful 28 inch 6 lb. 12 oz. spotted sea trout. This photo won him our grand prize package in our best trout photo contest. He caught this monster trout in the Upper St. Johns river by Jacksonville using a skitter walk top water plug.

Captain Rick Martin from Razor Fin Charters sent us this picture of a huge red that he caught on a fat chunk of mullet in the Banana River near the Space Center. This red drum measured 44 1/2 inches and took about 20 minutes to get in.

Josh got this great looking linesider off of the beach right by the Sebastian Inlet. There were schools of mullet running the beach and the snook were crushing them. Josh took some time off from surfing and sent a live mullet out into the school and ended up with this nice snook. SURF>SNOOK>FUN!!

My friend got these 2 snook to take his live finger mullet offering from under the docks at the Coast Guard Station by the Jupiter lighthouse. He and his buddy hooked 16 snook but only were able to land 8 of them.

During the fall mullet run, the snook pile up like firewood under the docks on either side of the Jupiter Inlet and around the Jupiter Inlet Colony docks. He got these last two right around sunset.

Joshua sent us in this great monster spotted sea trout montage that he caught wading the grass flats. He was fishing the early morning, outgoing tide in the Fort Pierce section of the Indian River using cut mullet.

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This snook picture is of Daniel at the Sebastian Inlet beach. The mullet were running down the beach and the snook were very visible within the schools. A live mullet with a nice strong hook through it was all that it took to land this over slot sow.

Gaven sent us in this picture of a red caught from his decked out fishing kayak. This healthy 29 inch redfish was caught right behind the Kennedy Space Center in the Indian River. That's a good looking fish.

There are tons of tarpon in and around the waters of the Treasure Coast during the summer months. Some stay all year and some are just passing through following the mullet, minnows and pilchards. This one ate a mullet head on the bottom off of a sandbar in the intracoastal waterway near Ft. Pierce.

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The bluefish migrate through the Treasure Coast along with many other species of fish during the Spring and Summer months. This bluefish was caught on a piece of cut mullet on the bottom. Not everyone likes the taste of blues but they are excellent when smoked and made into fish dip. This guy was lucky that we were after tarpon on this day and didn't have a fish cooler.

This large mouthed bass was caught in a little pond in Port St. Lucie. You won't believe what the bait was. This bass was caught on a piece of hot dog underneath a bobber. It must have seen the catfish that we were catching eating the hot dogs all day and gotten itself jealous.

One of the best things about fishing the area between the Singer Island and Jupiter Inlets is the ability to go from fishing inshore to offshore within 45 minutes. You can go from fishing the docks in the intracoastal for snook to sight fishing dolphin in the weed lines in the same hour.

The gulf stream comes closest to Florida between Singer Island and Jupiter and pelagic species like dolphin, sailfish and wahoos can be caught within a mile or so of the beach. This dolphin ate a free lined live greenie cast near a sargassum weed line.

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