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Best score today · 12 PM · Cobia

78/100Great

Now: 351 PM EDT
Best window: 3-8 PMFlood tide
Tide now: Ebbing0.6 ft ▼

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Best days to fish

Best: today · 78

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Conditions · 1 PM · now

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Time1PNOW

Score35Fair

Tide0.6 ft ▼Ebbing

CurrentEbb1.6 kn · toward SSE

Wind8 kn WSWgusts 11 · steady

Sea stateLight chop1.3 ft · 4 s

Air temp80°Warm

WeatherOvercast77% chance of rain

Water85°FObserved

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

Special Permit Zone (SPZ)

IN EFFECT NOW

Cobia

Retention open

Daily limit: 1 per day
Possession: Not published
Size: Minimum 36 in, fork length
Season: No closed season on file
Annual quota: Not published
Other: 2 per vessel per trip. Cobia off Florida's Atlantic coast are managed as the Florida east coast zone of the Gulf group.

From 50 CFR part 622, subpart Q (coastal migratory pelagics), read Sep 13

Other species here

Black drum Retention open (5 per day)
Black sea bass Retention open (7 per day)
Bonefish Catch & release (No retention)
Crevalle jack Retention open
Florida pompano Retention open (6 per day)
Gag grouper Closed (No retention)
Gray snapper Retention open (10 South Atlantic snappers combined per day)
Gray triggerfish Retention open (10 per day (20 South Atlantic snapper-grouper (20-fish) combined))
Greater amberjack Retention open (1 per day)
King mackerel Retention open (3 per day)
Mahi-mahi Retention open (10 per day)
Permit Retention open (1 per day)
Red grouper Retention open (3 South Atlantic grouper and tilefish combined per day)
Red snapper Catch & release (No retention)
Sailfish Retention open (1 per day (1 billfish combined))
Sheepshead Retention open (8 per day)
Southern flounder Retention open (5 per day)
Spanish mackerel Retention open (15 per day)
Summer flounder Retention open (5 per day)
Tarpon Catch & release (No retention)
Wahoo Retention open (2 per day)

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Spot profile

Delta Shoal

Depth: 10-25 ftSlope
Structure: Shoal · Outer · ExposedShoal · slope
Season: Off seasonCobia

NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 13 on a 3.4 m grid. Depths are feet below NAVD 88, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.

About this spot

Fishing Delta Shoal

Delta Shoal is a bar in Bayside and Gulfside from Craig Key to West End of Seven Mile Bridge, Florida. Depth is 10-25 ft, with a slope. Its profile reads shoal, outer water and exposed.

Waterlands scores 18 species here; the best right now are common snook, crevalle jack and Atlantic tarpon. It is peak season now for common snook and crevalle jack, and shoulder season for Atlantic tarpon, permit, gray snapper and red drum. Common snook peak from April through May and from September through November. Crevalle jack peak from April through May and from September through November. Atlantic tarpon peak from March through June.

Tackle & technique

Cobia: Cobia cruise inlets, beaches, buoys, wrecks and the backs of rays in 5 to 100 feet of water. On calm, sunny days sight-cast bucktails or live eels to fish near the surface. Otherwise anchor up-current of structure, chum, and fish live eels, crabs or menhaden near the bottom.
Common snook: Snook ambush bait around mangrove shorelines, bridge and dock lights, jetties and the mouths of passes and inlets, generally in 2 to 15 feet of water. Fish moving water, especially the outgoing tide, with a live pilchard, pinfish or shrimp, or a jerkbait or soft plastic swum past the structure. In summer they spawn along beaches and inlets, and in winter they crowd into rivers, canals and deep backcountry creeks where the water stays warmer.
Crevalle jack: Jacks roam in schools through inlets, passes, bays, river mouths and along beaches, pushing bait to the surface, and big fish also hold on nearshore reefs and wrecks. Watch for birds and surface blowups, then cast a popper, a spoon or a bucktail into the school and retrieve fast. Bring heavy spinning tackle, because a jack over 15 pounds runs hard and fights for a long time.

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