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Navarre Sound Side Snorkel Reef West

30.39°N · 86.86°W

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Conditions
Time
12 PM
Now
Score
67
Fair
Tide
0.2 ft ▼
Ebbing
Current
—
Ebb
Wind
12 kn
ESE · steady
Sea state
Easy
2 ft @ 5 s SE
Air temp
78°
Warm
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 12 PM. Score 67 Fair. Tide 0.2ft Falling ▼. Current -1.3kn Ebb. Wind 12kn ESE G20. Sea 2 ft @ 5 s SE Easy. Air 77.5°.

Why this score

Current
Slack
Prime

Current regulations

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What you can keep at this spot today

Sheepshead
Retention open
Daily limit
8 per day
Possession
Not published
Size
Minimum 12"
Gear
Legal gear: hook and line, cast net, seine, spear or gig. Illegal: multiple hooks used with live or dead natural bait; snatching prohibited.
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Minimum size 12 in total length. Vessel limit 50 per trip during March and April. State regulations extend into federal waters. Special regulations apply in Biscayne National Park (not applicable to this area).
Other species here
Red Drum Retention openSpanish Mackerel Retention openSpotted Seatrout Retention openGray Snapper Retention openCommon Snook Retention open
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Source: FWC · Florida Gulf State Waters: Panhandle Region · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Sheepshead is best at this spot

Shoulder seasonShoulder season for Sheepshead
~6 more weeks in shoulder
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SPOT PROFILE

DEPTH
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STRUCTURE
Artificial Reef

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About Navarre Sound Side Snorkel Reef West

Navarre Sound Side Snorkel Reef West is an artificial reef in the Florida Gulf State Waters of the Panhandle Region near Pensacola, where placed structure concentrates bait and predators along the sound side. Sheepshead stack on the reef from January through March and respond to bottom fishing with fiddler crabs, live shrimp, sand fleas, and oysters fished tight to the structure. Gray Snapper take over from May through August, holding close to the reef for live shrimp, cut bait, live pinfish, and squid on the bottom, with chumming drawing them up off the cover. Spotted Seatrout peak March through May and again in October and November, and Red Drum move through in September and October, when bottom jigging soft plastic grubs on jigheads and casting paddletails or gold spoons around the reef edges produce strikes. Spanish Mackerel cruise the area from April through October and hit metal jigs, small spoons, and bucktail jigs cast around the reef, while Common Snook round out the species list at this site.

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