Average weight: 30 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live
World’s record: 156 lbs.
Food Value: FairZ
Other Names: Little Tunny, Bonita
Average: Year-round
Bait: Small spoons, feathers or trolling lures
World’s Record: 37 lbs.
Food Value: Poor
Average weight: 20 lbs.
Season: Summer
Bait: any trolled bait
World’s record: 102 lbs. 8 oz.
Food value: Fair
Average weight: 2-4 lbs. Up to 14 lbs.
Season: Fall and Winter
Bait: spoons, cut bait, top water plugs in surf, inlet
World’s record: 31 lbs. 12 oz.
Food value: Good
Other names: Red Drum, Redfish
Average weight-4-8 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live or cut shrimp by markers, bridges, and inlet
World’s record: 94 lbs. 2 oz.
Food value: Good
Average weight: 1-3 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Shrimp or any cut bait
World’s record: 4 lbs. 11 oz.
Food value-Poor
Average weight-4-8 lbs.
Bait: Shrimp or any lure
Season: Year-round
World’s record: 10 lbs.
Food value: Good
Average weight: 14-40 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Feather jigs, trolled bait
World’s record: 135 lbs. 9 oz.
Food Value: Excellent
Average weight: 3-10 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Plugs or bait
World’s record: 66 lbs. 2 oz.
Food Value: Poor
Average weight: 1/2-3 lbs.
Season: year-round
Bait: Sand fleas, live shrimp, small feathered jigs in surf
World’s record: 9 lbs. 14 oz.
Food Value: Excellent
Average weight: 1 1/2-8lbs. Up to 60 lbs.
Season: Summer
Bait: Feather jigs, ballyhoo or strip bait
World’s record: 87 lbs.
Food Value: Excellent
Average weight: 3-15 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Clams, fiddler crabs, live shrimp off bridges
World’s record: 113 lbs. 1 oz.
Food value: Fair
Average weight: 2-8 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live shrimp or cut bait near inlet, bridges
World’s record: 22 lbs. 7 oz.
Food Value: Excellent
Commonly caught here: Nassau, red, strawberry, black, sea bass, scamp, and warsaw
Average weight: 2-20 lbs.
Season: Summer
Bait: Pieces of squid, Bonita, or cut mullet
World’s record (Warsaw) 436 lbs. 12 oz.
Food Value: Excellent
Average weight: 1-3 lbs.
Bait: Plugs or small spoons inside river or inlet
World’s record: 8 lbs.
Food value: Poor
Average weight: 3-10 lbs. Or up to 45 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live bait, mullet, and deep trolling spoon
World’s Record: 93 lbs.
Food value: Good
Average weight: 1 1/2 -4 lbs.
Season: Fall to Spring
Bait: Small spoons or feather jigs
World’s record: 13 lbs.
Food value: Excellent
Average weight: 1 1/2 -4 lbs.
Season: Fall to Spring
Bait: Small spoons or feather jigs
World’s record: 13 lbs.
Food value: Excellent
Average weight: 150 lbs.
Season: Winter thru May
Bait: whole Spanish mackerel, mullet or dolphin
World’s record: 1376 lbs.
Food Value: Fair
Average Weight: 1 – 3 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Net or snaghook
World’s record: 7 lbs. 12 oz.
Food Value: Poor
Average weight: 1/2-5 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: white feathered jigs tipped with shrimp, river bottom
World’s Record: 8 lbs. 4 oz.
Food Value: Excellent
Average weight: 40 lbs.
Season: Winter
Bait: ballyhoo, live and strip bait
World’s record: 142 lbs. 6 oz.
Food value: Poor
Average weight: 1/2 -3 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Sand fleas, live shrimp, small feathered jigs in surf
Local record: 4 lbs. 8 oz.
Food value: Excellent
Average weight: 1 1/2-10 lbs.
Season: Fall thru Spring
Bait: Live bait, trout touts, and mirrolures
World’s record: 19 lbs. 2 oz.
Food value: Excellent
Average weight: 2-10 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Clams, fiddler crabs, live shrimp off bridges
World’s record: 21 lbs. 4 oz.
Food value: Good
Commonly caught here: Mutton, red, California, yellowtail and mangrove
Average weight: 1/2 – 10 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Squid, feather jigs, mullet, and live or cut shrimp
Local record: (red) 59 lbs.
Food Value: Excellent
Average weight: 3 – 25 lbs.
Season: Open, except Jan., Feb., June, July and Aug.
Bait: Plugs, live mullet, shrimp, feather jigs
World’s record: 59 lbs. 8 oz.
Food value: Excellent
Average weight: 40 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live mullet, top water lures, feather jigs
World’s record: 286 lbs. 9 oz.
Food value: Poor
Average weight: 2-10 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Cut mullet or shrimp
World’s record: 13 lbs. 9 oz..
Food value: Good
Average weight: 40-85 lbs.
Season: year-round
Bait: Deep trolling lures
World’s record: 184 lbs.
Food value: Excellent
Average Weight: 1-3 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live or cut shrimp on inshore river bottoms
Local record: 19 lbs. 12 oz.
Food value: Excellent
Average weight: 1/2-3 lbs.
Season: year-round
Bait: Sand fleas, live shrimp, small feathered jigs in surf
Local record: 4 lbs. 8 oz.
Food value: Excellent
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