The Fishing Report
Fishing seasons & conditions by region
Fishing Seasons & Reports by Region
Every U.S. coast fishes differently. Pick your region for a month-by-month seasonality calendar, the species worth targeting, and how to catch them — then check the live tool for today's wind, seas and tides.
NortheastLong Island Sound through Maine — where stripers blitz beach and boulder in the same cast, fall albies set the calendar, and codfish are still the soul of the fishery.Mid-AtlanticFrom the Chesapeake mouth and Delmarva peninsula to the NY Bight — canyons offshore, striper runs inshore, and a cobia migration that's almost a religious event.Southeast AtlanticGeorgia & the Carolinas — marsh estuaries inshore, kings and Spanish nearshore, a long run to the Gulf Stream.South Florida & the KeysSubtropical fishery spanning Atlantic sailfish grounds, the Gulf side grass flats, and the Keys backcountry — home to the grand slam of flats fishing (tarpon, permit, bonefish) and year-round reef action.Gulf of MexicoFrom the Florida Panhandle across the Louisiana delta to the Texas coast — speckled trout and redfish in the marshes, kingfish and cobia in the spring, and yellowfin tuna and wahoo year-round around the oil rigs and blue-water ledges.Southern CaliforniaPoint Conception south to the border — kelp beds, offshore islands, and a summer tuna fishery that draws boats from everywhere.Northern CaliforniaPoint Conception to the Oregon border — cold, productive upwelling water, salmon runs, bay fisheries, and world-class rockfish grounds.Pacific NorthwestOregon and Washington coasts — salmon-dominated sport fishery with world-class halibut, rockfish, and the Columbia River sturgeon runs.Great LakesFive freshwater inland seas — Lake Erie walleye, Lake Michigan salmon, Superior lake trout, and St. Clair muskie define one of the most diverse freshwater fisheries on earth.Hawaiian IslandsYear-round offshore pelagics, reef-bound trevally, and wary bonefish flats in the middle of the Pacific — fishing pressure is low and the fish are big.Alaska — Southcentral & SoutheastRemote cold-water fisheries with 20-foot tidal swings, 100-pound halibut, and five salmon species on a compressed May–September open-water calendar.