Breezy Keys Bite, Offshore Hot, Flats Alive - Your Florida Keys Fishing Report for November 15, 2025

Artificial Lure here with your boots-on-the-dock Florida Keys fishing report for Saturday, November 15, 2025. Conditions are textbook Keys fall—crisp air, cooling water, and fish on the chew. Here’s what you need to know if you’re rigging up today. Weather is calm with light northeast breezes and morning temps in the upper 60s, warming to mid-70s by noon. The sky is mostly clear after sunrise at 6:37 AM. Sunset drops at 5:37 PM, giving us plenty of action between tides. Tide info for Key Largo looks like this: low tide around 1:27 AM, then a high at 7:11 AM, with another low near 1:50 PM and a final high at 8:03 PM according to Tide-Forecast.com and USHarbors. In Key West, high tide will be at 5:34 AM and 7:26 PM with low tide sitting near 12:40 PM, says Tides4Fishing. Plan your flats runs and channel ambushes for that morning push and late day rise—prime for feeding windows. Offshore, the bite’s still on fire for November. Recent reports from Florida Keys Fishing Report and Capt. Mike Genoun say mahi-mahi are still thick out past the edge. Boats trolling small to medium ballyhoo, feathered jigs, and skirted lures in blue/white are coming back fat with schoolies and slot keepers. Wahoo and kingfish started showing nicely on the early tide runs, with high-speed trolling and deep divers in purple-black or chartreuse getting hit. Closer to the reef, snapper and grouper are loving the moving water—Red grouper, mutton, and mangrove snapper are taking live pinfish and pilchards fished on knocker rigs just inside the patch reefs, and knocker rigs with cut ballyhoo or squid are money right now. Backcountry anglers, don’t sleep on the flats. According to Angling Adventures and SaltStrong, snook are staging thick along creek mouths and mangroves with the cooling water, plus trout, redfish, and a run of juvenile tarpon still rolling through—especially early. Topwater plugs in bone or mullet color at first light, then switch to soft plastics or paddle tails in natural hues when the sun gets up. For numbers, soft plastics on 1/8 ounce jigheads are a sure bet. Hot spots? Snake Creek Bridge and the flats north of Islamorada are loaded this week. The bayside at Channel 2 and 5 bridges produced fat mangroves, tarpon at sunset, and the occasional sharks. Best natural bait today is live shrimp, pilchards, or finger mullet—especially for flats and bridge work. Offshore, have ballyhoo and squid ready. Artificial wise, DOA shrimp, MirrorLure suspending plugs, Gulp! paddletails, and Skitter Walks in bone, gold, or black are all pulling numbers. Special mention: If you’re after something a little different, peacock bass are still active in Miami canals with live shiners or bright Rapala jerkbaits, per Wired2Fish. Best to catch and release these stunners. Remember, Carolina Hammerhead is now prohibited, so handle your sharks with care and release ’em clean. That’s it for your Florida Keys fishing scoop. Thanks for tuning in—remember to subscribe and never miss This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.