Florida Keys and Florida Bay: the water and what the app weighs

What the app weighs here

• The reef tract and the passes
• The tide in the passes
• Sanctuary and no-take zones
• Wind and seas on the ocean side

The layers and inputs that matter most in this water, as the chart names them. Every one carries its source and its age in the app.

Where the data is weakest

One open-ocean model cannot stand for every backcountry channel; each spot reads its own tide station, and every reading names its source.

The region is editorial, not a survey boundary: a spot near its edge is read from its own position, not from the region.

Inlets and passes

• Angelfish Creek
• Tavernier Creek
• Whale Harbor Channel
• Channel Five
• Moser Channel
• Key West Main Ship Channel

Built-in spots

• Islamorada Hump
  Seamount 14 nm SE of Islamorada. Blackfin, mahi, sails on the up-current side.
• Marathon Hump
  The West Hump, 20 nm out. Big current, big blackfin, amberjack on the top.
• 409 Hump
  Between the humps. Less pressure than Islamorada, same current.
• Key Largo Hump
  Small hump off Carysfort. Mahi and blackfin, fewer boats than Islamorada.
• Alligator Reef
  Islamorada’s reef, sails on the edge in winter. The pin sits inside a Sanctuary Preservation Area, where rules differ in state and federal waters: check the posted rule.
• The Elbow, Key Largo
  Where the reef bends. The pin sits inside the Sanctuary Preservation Area: no fishing.
• Sombrero Reef
  Marathon’s reef, with a buoy sitting right on it. The pin sits inside a Sanctuary Preservation Area, where rules differ in state and federal waters: check the posted rule.
• Flamingo, Florida Bay
  Reds and snook on the banks, tarpon in the channels. Shallow water muds fast in wind.
• Islamorada Backcountry
  Lignumvitae basins and the bayside banks. Tarpon, bones, and permit by season.
• Snake Bight
  Reds and snook on a rising tide over the mud flats east of Flamingo.

Fish scored here

Sailfish, Mahi, Swordfish, Blackfin Tuna, Wahoo, Kingfish, Mutton Snapper, Grouper, Tarpon, Bonefish, Permit, Snook and Redfish.

The fish scored at one or more of the built-in spots above, each with its own page: its cited water temperature band and its season.

See it today

Today's best Free bet in Florida Keys and Florida Bay is on the home page, without an account. The chart opens on this water with a free account: open the chart here.