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Amberjack
Average weight: 30 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live
World's record: 155 lb. 10 oz.
Food Value: Fair |
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False Albacore (Little
Tunny, Bonita)
Average weight-8-15 lbs.
Season-Year-round
Bait: Small spoons, feathers or trolling lures
World's record: 35 lbs. 2 oz.
Food Value: Poor |
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Barracuda
Average weight: 20 lbs.
Season: Summer
Bait: any trolled bait
World's record: 83 lbs.
Food value: Poor |
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Bluefish
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 |
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Channel Bass (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 |
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Common Saltwater Catfish
Average weight: 1-3 lbs.
Bait: Shrimp or any cut bait
Season-Year-round
Food value-Poor |
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Gafftopsail Catfish
Average weight-4-8 lbs.
Bait: Shrimp or any lure
Season-Year-round
Local record: 9 lbs. 6 oz.
Food value: Good |
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Cobia
Average weight: 14-40 lbs.
Season-Year-round
Bait: Feather jigs, trolled bait
World's record: 135 lbs. 9 oz.
Food Value: Excellent |
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Jack Crevalle
Average weight-3-10 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Plugs or bait
World's record: 54 lbs. 7 oz.
Food Value: Poor |
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Croaker
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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Dolphin
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 |
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Drum
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 |
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Southern Flounder
Average weight: 2-8 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live shrimp or cut bait near inlet,
bridges
World's record: 20 lbs. 9 oz.
Food Value: Excellent |
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Grouper Family
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 |
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Ladyfish
Average weight: 1-3 lbs.
Bait: Plugs or small spoons inside river or
inlet
Local record: 6 lbs.
Food value: Poor |
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King Mackerel
Average weight: 3-10 lbs. Or up to 45 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live bait, mullet, and deep trolling
spoon
Food value: Good |
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Spanish Mackerel
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 |
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Blue Marlin
Average weight: 150 lbs.
Season: Winter thru May
Bait: whole Spanish mackerel, mullet or dolphin
World's record: 1282 lbs.
Food Value: Fair |
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Mullet
Season: Year-round
Bait: Net or snaghook
World's record: 8 lbs. 1 oz. |
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Pompano
Average weight: 1/2-5 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: white feathered jigs tipped with shrimp,
river bottom |
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Sailfish
Average weight: 40 lbs.
Season: Winter
Bait: ballyhoo, live and strip bait
World's record: 128 lbs.
Food value: Poor |
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Sand Perch
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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Sea Trout
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 |
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Sheepshead
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 |
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Snapper Family
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 |
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Tarpon
Average weight: 40 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live mullet, top water lures, feather
jigs
World's record: 283 lbs.
Food value: Poor |
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Triggerfish
Average weight: 2-10 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Cut mullet or shrimp
World's record: 12 lbs.
Food value: Good |
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Wahoo
Average weight: 40-85 lbs.
Season: year-round
Bait: Deep trolling lures
World's record: 149 lbs.
Food value: Excellent |
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Weakfish
Average Weight: 1-3 lbs.
Season: Year-round
Bait: Live or cut shrimp on inshore river
bottoms
Local record: 11 lbs.
Food value: Excellent |
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Whiting
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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