FLORIDA ATLANTIC COAST FISHING MAP
Fishing Hot Spots
From Palm Beach and Jupiter up through the Treasure Coast, Sebastian Inlet and Cape Canaveral to Mosquito Lagoon, Daytona, St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Tap any star or dot on the map to see what it is and what to fish there.
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Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.
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Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:
Fishing Hot Spots by area
Inlets, piers, lagoon flats and wrecks with good fishing water. Tap one to fly to it on the map.
Palm Beach sailfish, Sebastian Inlet snook and Mosquito Lagoon redfish
The Gulf Stream runs closest to shore off Palm Beach and Jupiter, so sailfish, kingfish, mahi-mahi and wahoo are caught only a few miles out, best for sailfish in the winter. The inlets at Palm Beach, Jupiter, Stuart, Fort Pierce and Sebastian are famous for snook, especially in the summer, and for tarpon during the fall mullet run. The Indian River Lagoon, the Banana River and Mosquito Lagoon are shallow, clear water with big redfish, speckled trout and snook on the flats. Further north, the piers and jetties at Daytona, St. Augustine and Jacksonville have whiting, pompano, sheepshead, flounder and redfish, and the St. Johns River mouth and Nassau Sound are good for bull reds.
Merritt Island and Canaveral National Seashore allow fishing in most areas, but some places around the space center are closed. Snook, redfish and trout have seasons, slot sizes and bag limits, and you need a Florida saltwater fishing license unless you fish from a licensed pier. Check the FWC rules before you go.
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Map sources & checks
- Coverage
- Florida Atlantic Coast. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.
- Map data
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) — retrieved October 7, 2026
- World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN), Protected Planet — retrieved October 7, 2026 (license: Protected Planet terms)
- Hot spots
- 72 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): FWC artificial reef deployment records (44), OpenStreetMap named place (general position, not a pinpoint) (28).
- Protected areas
- 36 protected areas from the official list above, drawn in dashed red. Fishing rules inside them are set by the managing agency; check with them before you fish.
- Chart layers (Charts button)
- GEBCO ocean depth and OpenSeaMap buoys, lights and markers, plus official NOAA nautical charts in U.S. waters. GEBCO and OpenSeaMap are useful references, not official navigation charts.
- Weather & tides
- See Weather & Tides for this area: NOAA/NWS forecasts, NOAA buoys and NOAA Tides & Currents, with Open-Meteo models where NOAA has no station.
- Dates
- This page last updated October 15, 2026. Each dataset keeps its own retrieval date, shown above.
⚠️ Planning reference only, not for navigation. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts, and proper safety gear before heading out.
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