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Best score today · 5 AM · Red drum
- Now
- 568 PM EST
- Best window
- 8 PM-12 AMFlood tide
- Tide now
- Flooding0.8 ft ▲
Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine
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14-day forecast
Best days to fish
24-hour conditions
Saturday, Nov 14 · 3 AM
Tide & current
NOAA CO-OPS
97Tide: EbbingCurrent: 1.6 kn ebbWind & pressure
ECMWF
64Wind: 7 kt EPressure: SteadyWater temp & sky
NDBC + Open-Meteo Marine
78Water temp: 82°F, primeLight: NightSolunar: Near a majorSeason & habitat · Red drum
Species seasonality
75Season: PeakHabitat: Poor fitDepth: In range
Current regulations
What you can keep here today
Atlantic state waters (Nassau through Miami-Dade counties)
Red drum
Retention open- Daily limit
- 1 per day
- Possession
- Not published
- Size
- Slot 18 to 27 in, total length
- Season
- No closed season on file
- Annual quota
- Not published
- Other
- Must stay whole until landed ashore. For-hire captain and crew may not keep a bag limit. Special rules apply in Biscayne National Park. Hook and line or cast net only. No spearing, gigging, bowfishing, snatch hooking, or multiple hooks with natural bait. Open year-round.
From FWC Recreational Regulations: Red Drum (Redfish), read Sep 13
Other species here
- Atlantic croaker Retention open (50 per day)
- Black drum Retention open (5 per day)
- Bluefish Retention open (3 per day)
- Bonefish Catch & release (No retention)
- Cobia Retention open (1 per day)
- Crevalle jack Retention open
- Florida pompano Retention open (6 per day)
- Gag grouper Closed (No retention)
- Gray snapper Retention open (5 per day (10 snapper combined))
- Gray triggerfish Retention open (10 per day)
- Greater amberjack Retention open (1 per day)
- King mackerel Retention open (2 per day)
- Mahi-mahi Retention open (5 per day)
- Permit Retention open (1 per day)
- Red grouper Retention open (3 per day (3 Atlantic grouper and tilefish combined))
- Red snapper Check regulations
- Sailfish Retention open (1 per day (1 billfish combined))
- Sheepshead Retention open (8 per day)
- Snook Retention open (1 per day)
- Southern flounder Closed (No retention)
- Spanish mackerel Retention open (15 per day)
- Spot Retention open (50 per day)
- Spotted seatrout Retention open (3 per day)
- Summer flounder Closed (No retention)
- Tarpon Catch & release (No retention)
- Wahoo Retention open (2 per day)
Source: FWC · synced today
Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed
When Red drum is best here
Peak season for Red drum · 16 more weeks at peak
- Peak
- Shoulder
- Off
- This week
Spot profile
Bache Shoal
- Depth
- 25-30 ftFlat bottom
- Structure
- Shoal · Outer · ExposedShoal · flat bottom
- Season
- Peak seasonRed drum
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 Bache Shoal
Bache Shoal is a bar in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Depth is 25-30 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads shoal, outer water and exposed.
Waterlands scores 19 species here; the best right now are common snook, red drum and king mackerel. It is peak season now for common snook, red drum, king mackerel and crevalle jack, and shoulder season for Florida pompano, Atlantic tarpon, Spanish mackerel and black drum. Common snook peak from April through May and from September through November. Red drum peak from October through February. King mackerel peak from November through March.
Tackle & technique
- Red drum
- Redfish feed on shallow grass flats, oyster bars and marsh edges, often in 1 to 4 feet of water, and drop into channels, deep holes and tidal creeks when the water turns very hot or cold. Work a live shrimp under a popping cork or a soft plastic along the grass line on a rising tide, then fish creek mouths and drains as the tide falls. Bull reds over 30 inches school in the surf, passes and jetties in late summer and fall, where cut mullet or a live crab on the bottom is the standard approach.
- 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.
- King mackerel
- Kings roam from beaches and pier ends out to reefs, wrecks and ledges in 40 to 200 feet, usually feeding in the upper half of the water column. Slow-troll live menhaden, blue runners or cigar minnows on a light wire stinger rig, or pull spoons and ribbonfish past bait schools. Look for clean green water above 68 F with bait and birds on it.
Nearby spots
Other spots within an easy run
- Sands Cut72
Channel · 2.1 mi
Top: Common snookPeak season- Common snook 72
- Red drum 69
- Crevalle jack 68
7 kt ENEL 10:07 PM · 0.5 ftH 3:33 AM · 1.7 ft
- Bowles Bank64
Bar · 1.9 mi
Top: Common snookPeak season- Common snook 64
- King mackerel 62
- Red drum 61
7 kt ENEL 9:19 PM · 0.7 ftH 3:02 AM · 1.9 ft
- Legare Anchorage61
Channel · 1.3 mi
Top: Common snookPeak season- Common snook 61
- Red drum 61
- Atlantic tarpon 58
7 kt ENEH 1:43 AM · 2.8 ftL 8:05 AM · 0.6 ft
- Sea Grape Point58
Cape · 2.2 mi
Top: Common snookPeak season- Common snook 58
- Red drum 56
- King mackerel 52
7 kt ENEH 1:43 AM · 2.8 ftL 8:05 AM · 0.6 ft
Scores and forecasts are for planning only and can be wrong. Conditions on the water change fast; check the marine forecast before you go. Regulations change during the season, so confirm limits and closures with FWC before you keep a fish.