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Best score today · 6 AM · Cobia

81/100Great

Now: 274 AM EST
Best window: 6-9 AMEbb tide
Tide now: High2.1 ft

Data from: NOAA CO-OPS + NDBC + ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine

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14-day forecast

Best days to fish

Best: Fri · 87

24-hour conditions

Wednesday, Nov 4 · 8 AM

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Time8A

Score56Good

Tide1.9 ft ▼Ebbing

CurrentEbb1.8 kn · toward E

Wind4 kn NEgusts 8 · steady

Sea stateModerate2.5 ft · 5 s

Air temp76°Warm

WeatherPartly cloudy30% chance of rain

Water82°FModel

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

Atlantic state waters (Nassau through Miami-Dade counties)

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: 1 per person or 2 per vessel, whichever is less. Spears, gigs, hook and line, seine or cast net.

From FWC Recreational Regulations: Cobia, 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)
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 (2 per day)
Red drum 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)

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Source: FWC · synced yesterday

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Cobia is best here

Shoulder season for Cobia · 4 more weeks at shoulder

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Spot profile

Biscayne Creek

Depth: 6-10 ftFlat bottom
Structure: Estuary · Inner · ProtectedEstuary · flat bottom
Season: Shoulder 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 Biscayne Creek

Biscayne Creek is a channel in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Depth is 6-10 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads estuary, inner water and protected.

Waterlands scores 19 species here; the best right now are common snook, red drum and crevalle jack. It is peak season now for common snook, red drum, crevalle jack and king mackerel, and shoulder season for Florida pompano, Atlantic tarpon, black drum and gray snapper. Common snook peak from April through May and from September through November. Red drum peak from October through February. Crevalle jack peak from April through May and from September through November.

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.
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.

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