howsthebite · Florida
How's the bite in Florida today?
- Lockjaw
- Picky
- Biting
- On fire
5 tracked waters in FL. Faded dots are the rest of the country. 1 outside the map area.
| Index | Water | Temp | Level | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Biting | St. Marks River | — | 6.45 ft | 4:21 AM–6:21 AM |
| 6 Biting | Key West | 80.6°F | 1.986 ft | 4:11 AM–6:11 AM |
| 6 Biting | Lake Okeechobee | — | 12.72 ft | 4:07 AM–6:07 AM |
| 6 Biting | Navarre Pier | 70.7°F | 1.689 ft | 3:34 AM–5:34 AM |
| 5 Picky | Tampa Bay | 75.2°F | 1.371 ft | 4:15 AM–6:15 AM |
Rebuilt 10:40 AM · every reading carries its station on the water's own page.
Before you go
A Florida fishing licence runs $17 a year for residents. FWC sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What a Florida fishing licence costs, and who is exempt → The days you can fish Florida without a licence →What you may keep
FWC sets a size or bag limit for 20 species here — 18 with at least one area open today. Where a species is open in one water and closed in another, its own page says which. Each page carries the agency's own figures, the date they were read, and what is still unsettled.
- Black grouper
- Bluefish
- Cobia
- Common snook
- Florida pompano
- Flounder closed today
- Gag grouper closed today
- Greater amberjack
- Hogfish
- King mackerel
- Lane snapper
- Mangrove snapper (gray snapper)
- Mutton snapper
- Red drum (redfish)
- Red grouper
- Red snapper
- Sheepshead
- Spanish mackerel
- Spotted seatrout (speckled trout)
- Yellowtail snapper
Can you eat what you catch?
That call belongs to Florida Department of Health (FDOH) — most Florida freshwater fish are fine to eat, and a mercury threshold triggers the advisories you can look up by water. We link the source instead of paraphrasing health advice.
FDOH consumption advisories →