01Where can you fish from a pier in Florida?
Public fishing piers save you a boat and a license in most cases, because a pier usually holds a blanket license that covers everyone on it.
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Where do you catch sheepshead in Florida?
Sheepshead, the striped fish some call convict fish, live near structure in coastal water: oyster bars, seawalls and tidal creeks.
They eat mostly crustaceans and small fish, and the baits the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission suggests are live shrimp, sand fleas and fiddler crabs. They spawn inshore, typically in March and April. A keeper must be at least 12 inches long, the limit is eight per person a day, and during March and April a boat may carry no more than fifty. Hook and line, cast net, seine, spear or gig are all legal, but multiple hooks with natural bait and snatching are not. They grow to 36 inches, though most caught are around 13. On a licensed saltwater pier you need no license of your own.
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02When is flounder season in Florida?
Flounder may be kept for most of the year, but every year the harvest closes statewide from October 15 through November 30 and reopens on December 1.
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03Do you need a fishing license in Florida?
Yes, unless you are exempt: Florida requires a freshwater or saltwater fishing license, or both, for anyone 16 or older.
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- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, sheepshead recreational regulations ↗ Read September 23, 2026
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, sheepshead species profile ↗ Read September 23, 2026
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, do I need a license ↗ Read September 23, 2026
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Where can you fish from a pier in Florida?
Public fishing piers save you a boat and a license in most cases, because a pier usually holds a blanket license that covers everyone on it.
Where is the surf fishing in Florida?
Surf fishing works where the beach has structure - a trough, a bar, a cut, an inlet - rather than a flat sheet of sand.
Where do you go deep sea fishing in Florida?
Where the charter fleets are. On the Panhandle, Destin in Okaloosa County has one of the largest charter fleets in the country because the hundred-fathom curve comes closer to shore there than anywhere else in the Gulf, with Panama City in Bay County and Pensacola in Escambia close behind for red snapper and grouper.
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