U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS FISHING MAP

Fishing Hot Spots

St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. Tap any star or dot on the map to see what it is, how deep it is and what to fish there.

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Parks & rules

Data rule: Every spot comes from an official NOAA nautical chart, the GEBCO undersea names list, the NOAA Marine Protected Areas Inventory or NOAA buoy stations. Boat ramps and marinas come from OpenStreetMap. BigJoe does not invent coordinates. The exact sources used on this map are listed under Map sources & checks below.
Select a Fishing Hot Spot on the map or from the list below.
★ Fishing Hot SpotBoat rampMarinaWreckObstructionRock (yellow = awash)Coral / rock bottomCanyonWeather/tide stationNo-fishing zone (solid red)Protected area, fishing with rules (dashed red)

Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.

Lake guides for this map

Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:

📘 St. Thomas & the North Drop📘 St. Croix

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Fishing Hot Spots by island

Banks, reefs, canyons and passages named on the NOAA charts. Tap one to fly to it on the map.

The North Drop and South Drop

The big-game action in the Virgin Islands is on the North Drop, the edge of the shelf about 20 miles north of St. Thomas, and the South Drop south of St. Thomas and St. John. That is where blue marlin, wahoo, yellowfin tuna and mahi-mahi run, with the best blue marlin fishing in summer around the full moon. St. Croix is different: deep water sits close to shore, so the canyons off Frederiksted and the north shore are a short run from the dock.

BigJoe’s gear for U.S. Virgin Islands

What BigJoe would bring to fish these waters.

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Species GuidesFish found around the Virgin Islands.Weather & TidesCharlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Christiansted and more.U.S. Virgin Islands guideAll the species recorded in USVI waters.

Map sources & checks

Coverage
U.S. Virgin Islands. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.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
Protected areas
10 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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