Here Are Some Links to Other Great
Fishing-Related Pages
Florida Saltwater Fishing
- GOFC (Return to Main Menu).
The Gainesville Offshore Fishing Club's Home Page . . .
you are currently three menus deep into this Web site!
- Fishing Around the Big Bend.
Your webmaster's favorite site (after the GOFC page, of course). This is the
best site to visit if you fish Florida's Big Bend. Fishing reports, chat
room, tides, weather - - everything you could want! You will want to
spend lots of time here.
- Jacksonville
Offshore Sports Fishing Club. Our counterparts in
JAX.
- Cedar Key
The Islands of Florida's Nature Coast are at the center
of GOFC's fishing area.
- Gary's Central Florida (East Coast)
Fishing Report and Links. A saltwater rivers and Port Canaveral fishing page
with local information for the locals as well as for the visitors to the area.
- David
Jennings' Page. Neat . . . This guy maintains his own
personal fishing page. A monthly list of hot spots off
Florida's East Coast (with loran numbers), mostly between
St. Augustine and Ft. Pierce.
- Florida Fishing.
Brian Dolnik has built a search engine that allows you to
dig out a surprising variety of information on fishing
Florida's East Coast. Includes fishing forums and
reports. Emphasizes the Indian River area.
- Jethro's
Fishing Page empahsizes east central Florida.
- Reel Native -- South
Florida Saltwater Fishing. All about fishing the
southeastern coast of Florida.
- Discover
Key West -- Fishing and Boating. Fishing the Florida
Keys. Includes a listing of charter boats, a seasonal
fishing newsletter, and a calendar of fishing.
- Fishing
Marco Islands and the Everglades and the 10,000 Islands.
Southwest Florida Saltwater fishing.
- CyberAngler.
Fishing southeastern Florida, the Keys and the
Everglades.
- Florida Captain's Page.
A listing of charter captains statewide plus selected
dive shops and marinas.
- The
Fish Line. Your Florida fishing intelligence service,
offering up-to-date information on fishing conditions
throughout the entire state.
- Florida
Bait Profiles. All about our baitfish by Captain
Charlie Walker.
- Jethro's
Fishing Page. Emphasizes East Central Florida and includes a whole
page devoted to
nothing but recreational shrimping that's a
great source for finding out where, when, and how to
catch 'em. Lots of shrimping reports.
Local Tides and Weather
- Tides for the GOFC Fishing Area. Uses David Flater's Xtide program to
calculate tides. Very customizable output. Server is sometimes slow
or busy.
- Florida Marine Forecasts. Official NOAA
marine forecasts for various coastal regions of Florida
from Jacksonville to Apalachicola.
- Altamaha
Sound to Flagler Beach. Northeast Florida,
including waters off Jacksonville and St.
Augustine.
- Flagler
Beach to Jupiter Inlet. East central Florida,
including waters off Daytona, Cocoa, and Ft.
Pierce.
- Jupiter
Inlet to Chokoloskee. Southeast and southwest
Florida, excluding the Keys and Florida Bay.
- Ocean
Reef to Dry Tortougas to East Cape Sable. The
Keys and Florida Bay.
- Bonita
Beach to the Suwannee River. West central
Florida including Sarasota, the greater Tampa/St.
Petersburg/Clearwater area, Crystal River, and
Cedar Key
- Suwannee
River to Destin. Northwest Florida and the
Big Bend, including Steinhatchee, Appalachicola,
and Panama City.
- Destin
to Pascagula. Western Florida panhandle,
Alabama and Mississippi, including waters off
Pensacola and Mobile.
- Sea
surface wind forecast maps. Very accurate wind speed
and direction forecasts in 6 hour increments for the next
36 hours (from Intellicast). How hard will it blow in
your favorite fishing hole?
- Wave
height forecast. Accurate wave height and direction
forecasts for the Gulf of Mexico in 12 hour increments
for the next 48 hours (courtesy of the U.S. Navy).
- Orlando
Intellicast Weather Radar. Weather radar image of
Florida and coastal waters. Is it raining where you want
to fish today?
- Current
Cedar Key Weather. From a weather station at the
Cedar Key outside boat ramp -- wind speed and direction
and air temperature. Includes the current reading and
records for every 10 minutes over the past hour and
hourly for the past 12 hours. Server is sometimes slow or
busy.
- Weather
in the Florida Middle Grounds. Live data from a
weather buoy located about 100 miles west of Bayport
Florida. Includes current and recent (every 10 minutes
over the past hour and hourly for the past 12 hours) data
for wind speed and direction, air temperature, wave
height and period, and sea temperature. Server is
sometimes slow or busy.
- National Data Buioy Center.
Select other marine weather stations and buoys. Server is
sometimes slow or busy.
- Sea
Temperature Map. A satellite image showing sea
surface temperatures provided by the University of
Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science.
Saltwater Fishing Elsewhere
Books, Magazines, Newspapers, and Other
Publications
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Charles H. Courtney, chas@ufl.edu