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Bar · Florida

Triumph Reef

25.49°N · 80.12°W · Bar · Biscayne Bay

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Best score today · 8 AM · Cobia

72/100Great
Now
2911 PM EDT
Best window
11 PM-12 AMNight bite
Tide now
Low1.2 ft

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24-hour conditions

Monday, Sep 21 · 9 AM

Time9A
Score35Fair
Tide1.2 ft ▼Ebbing
Current0.7 knmodeled · toward NE
Wind5 kn SWgusts 9 · steady
Sea stateLight chop0.7 ft · 4 s
Air temp81°Warm
WeatherMostly cloudy84% chance of rain
Water86°FBias corrected

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 (1 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 Retention open (5 per day)
  • Spanish mackerel Retention open (15 per day)
  • Spot Retention open (50 per day)
  • Spotted seatrout Retention open (3 per day)
  • Summer flounder Retention open (5 per day)
  • Tarpon Catch & release (No retention)
  • Wahoo Retention open (2 per day)

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When Cobia is best here

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Cobia in Florida

Spot profile

Triumph Reef

Depth
20-25 ftFlat bottom
Structure
Reef · Outer · ExposedReef · flat bottom
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 Triumph Reef

Triumph Reef is a bar in Biscayne Bay, Florida. Depth is 20-25 ft, with a flat bottom. Its profile reads reef, outer water and exposed.

Waterlands scores 18 species here; the best right now are common snook, gray snapper and Atlantic tarpon. It is peak season now for common snook and crevalle jack, and shoulder season for gray snapper, Atlantic tarpon, permit and red grouper. Common snook peak from April through May and from September through November. Gray snapper peak from May through August. 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.
Gray snapper
Mangrove snapper hold tight to mangrove roots, bridge pilings, jetties and reef ledges, from a few feet deep inshore to 150 feet offshore. Chum to pull them out of cover, then freeline or lightly weight a live shrimp or pilchard on fluorocarbon leader, since they shy away from heavy line in clear water. The bite improves at dusk and after dark.

Nearby spots

Other spots within an easy run

  • Sands Cut

    Channel · 4.1 mi

    73
    Top: Common snookPeak season
    • Common snook 73
    • Atlantic tarpon 69
    • Crevalle jack 64

    2 kt SSWL 1:11 AM · 0.7 ftH 6:15 AM · 1.5 ft

  • Bowles Bank

    Bar · 3.0 mi

    67
    Top: Common snookPeak season
    • Common snook 67
    • Atlantic tarpon 61
    • Crevalle jack 57

    2 kt SSWL 12:18 AM · 0.9 ftH 5:55 AM · 1.8 ft

  • Legare Anchorage

    Channel · 1.1 mi

    63
    Top: Common snookPeak season
    • Common snook 63
    • Atlantic tarpon 62
    • Crevalle jack 59

    2 kt SSWH 4:25 AM · 2.4 ftL 11:00 AM · 0.8 ft

  • Bache Shoal

    Bar · 2.4 mi

    60
    Top: Common snookPeak season
    • Common snook 60
    • Atlantic tarpon 54
    • Crevalle jack 52

    2 kt SSWH 4:25 AM · 2.4 ftL 11:00 AM · 0.8 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.