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Egmont Key Reef

27.58°N · 82.74°W

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Conditions
Time
1 PM
Now
Score
79
Good
Tide
0.1 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
5 kn
ENE · gusty
Sea state
Easy
1 ft chop
Air temp
76°
Warm
Weather
Partly cloudy
54% cloud
Hour 1 PM. Score 79 Good. Tide 0.1ft Rising ▲. Current +0.7kn Flood. Wind 5kn ENE G14. Sea 1 ft chop Easy. Air 75.7°.

Why this score

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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 with live or dead natural bait; snatching prohibited.
Annual quota
Not published
Other
Minimum 12 inches total length. Vessel limit 50 per trip during March and April. State regulations extend into federal waters. Open year-round.
Other species here
Spanish Mackerel Retention openSpotted Seatrout Retention openGray Snapper Retention openCommon Snook Retention openRed Drum Retention open
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Source: FWC · Florida Gulf State Waters: Tampa Bay Region · synced today

Seasonality

52-week view · today highlighted

When Sheepshead is best at this spot

Shoulder seasonShoulder season for Sheepshead
~3 more weeks in shoulder
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Peak seasonShoulder seasonOff season

SPOT PROFILE

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STRUCTURE
Artificial Reef

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About Egmont Key Reef

Egmont Key Reef is an artificial reef off the mouth of Tampa Bay near St. Petersburg, within the Florida Gulf State Waters of the Tampa Bay Region. Sheepshead lead the season from January through March. Spanish Mackerel run in two waves, March through May and again September through October. Common Snook peak April through June, Gray Snapper hold on the structure from May through August, and Red Drum arrive in August and September. Spotted Seatrout move through in March and April and again in October and November. Over the reef structure, bottom fishing with live fiddler crabs, sand fleas, or live shrimp targets Sheepshead, while Gray Snapper respond to live shrimp, live pilchards, or cut bait on knocker rigs, with chumming used to draw them up. Spanish Mackerel feed above the reef and fall to small spoons, metal jigs, and bucktail jigs cast into breaking fish, and live scaled sardines or live pinfish draw strikes from Snook working the edges.

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