Gulf Coast fishing conditions & bite forecast
Today · Perdido Key, FL
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Today · Perdido Key, FL
Moon-driven timing
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The week ahead
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Live shrimp · gold spoon
Keep it legal. Size and bag limits for every target species are on its guide — redfish, trout, flounder, sheepshead, pompano — and rules change often, so verify with Florida FWC ↗
Season watch
Before you launch
Call ahead—shrimp, croaker, and minnows can sell out before breakfast.
Shared by local anglers
No shared catches yet. Share a catch to put the first fish up.
Catches are shared voluntarily and reviewed before they appear. Locations show what the angler chose to share — water name only by default.Plan the week
The weekly read is generated from the live NOAA and NWS feed once it loads.
The 7-day outlook for your home water, the best day to go, what's biting and on what. One email a week, no noise.
Community catch board
Put your fish on the board. Everything shared is reviewed before it appears.
The morning number
The score rates the best three hours of daylight at this water, from four things a working guide checks first. It is a conditions score, not a catch prediction.
How fast the water is moving during the window. At Pensacola and Dauphin Island that is NOAA's current prediction for the pass; on the other waters, which have no current station, the tide curve's rate of change stands in, and the bars say which.
Forecast wind for those hours, weighted by direction. A north wind that flattens the bays costs little; a south wind that builds them costs a lot.
Water temperature against the fish that should be here this month, from the same species calendar as the Target card. Water that is plainly wrong for them also holds the whole score down, and the bars say so.
Averaged across the window: first light and last light score best, with a little credit for cloud cover.
Final score: 15 + the four parts, limited to 15–97, for the best three-hour window between sunrise and sunset. A day with everything right reads in the 90s, a good day in the 80s, a calm day on a dead tide about 80, and storms or wind hold a day in the 30s to 50s. When storms are forecast later in the day the window is chosen to end two hours before they arrive and the bars say when. Thunderstorms in the window, an active NWS marine alert, a hard wind all day, or water too cold or too warm for the fish hold the score down instead of shading it, and the reason is shown under the bars. Today's score looks ahead from now.