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Best score today · 7 PM · Red grouper

65/100Great

Now: 338 PM EDT
Best window: 8 PM-12 AMMoving water

Data from: ECMWF + Open-Meteo Marine · Waterlands engine

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Best days to fish

Best: Wed · 67

24-hour conditions · rolling from now

Conditions · 8 PM · now

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Time8PNOW

Score33Fair

Current2.2 knmodeled · toward NNE

Wind9 kn SEgusts 13 · building

Sea stateLight chop1.1 ft · 5 s

Air temp81°Warm

WeatherOvercast75% chance of rain

Water87°FModel

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Current regulations

What you can keep here today

Special Permit Zone (SPZ)

IN EFFECT NOW

No rule for Red grouper is on file here yet, so its status is unknown, not closed. Confirm limits with FWC before you keep a fish.

Species rules here

Black drum Retention open (5 per day)
Bonefish Catch & release (No retention)
Cobia Retention open (1 per day)
Crevalle jack Retention open
Florida pompano Retention open (6 per day)
Gray snapper Retention open (5 per day (10 snapper combined))
Permit Retention open (1 per day)
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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Source: FWC · synced today

Seasonality · 52-week view · this week ringed

When Red grouper is best here

Shoulder season for Red grouper · 27 more weeks at shoulder

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Spot profile

Straits of Florida

Depth: 2,700-2,800 ft
Structure: Channel · Outer · Exposed
Season: Shoulder seasonRed grouper

NOAA NCEI DEM, sampled Sep 13 on a 464 m grid. Depths are feet below mean sea level, not chart datum (MLLW), so they can differ from a chart by a few feet. Not for navigation.

About this spot

Fishing Straits of Florida

Straits of Florida is a channel in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Depth is 2,700-2,800 ft. Its profile reads channel, 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, gray snapper, permit 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

Red grouper: Red grouper live on low limestone ledges and potholed live bottom across the West Florida Shelf, mostly in 60 to 250 feet. Drift to find hard bottom, then anchor and fish live pinfish, grunts or squid on the bottom with stout conventional tackle. Reel hard right after the bite, because they dive into holes, and use a descending device on fish released from deep water.
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.