FISH SCUTER

87 waters · October

Fishing by region

Every US coast, the Great Lakes and fresh water in all 50 states. Each water has its own page: what's biting this month, the season calendar, and twelve months of what to throw.

Florida

10 waters

Pensacola to Apalachicola

The Panhandle

Bull red month, the fall pompano run, Spanish on the beach

St. Marks to Tarpon Springs

The Big Bend & Nature Coast

The best month: reds schooled, trout back on the flats, Spanish and kings

Tarpon Springs to Venice

Tampa Bay & Sarasota

The other best month: reds, snook, trout, kings and Spanish

Venice to Naples

Charlotte Harbor & the Islands

Snook reopens; reds, trout, kings and Spanish — the fall peak

Marco Island to Flamingo

The Ten Thousand Islands & Everglades

Snook reopens; reds, snook and tarpon on the fall bait

Key Largo to Key West

The Florida Keys

Snook opens in the backcountry; bones, permit and the return of the kings

Homestead to Fort Lauderdale

Miami & Biscayne Bay

Mullet run peak: snook, tarpon, jacks on every inlet and beach

Boca Raton to Sebastian

Palm Beach & the Treasure Coast

Peak mullet run; reds and trout in the lagoon; flounder at the inlets

Sebastian to New Smyrna

The Space Coast Lagoons

Fall peak: reds, trout and snook everywhere; flounder at the inlets

Daytona to Fernandina

The First Coast

Fall peak: reds, trout and flounder everywhere; the Flounder Pounder

Gulf of Mexico

4 waters

Port O'Connor to the Rio Grande

The Lower Texas Coast

The fall feed: bulls, trout under birds, flounder run

Matagorda to Sabine Pass

The Upper Texas Coast

Birds over trout; the bull red run peaks

Sabine Pass to the Chandeleurs

The Louisiana Marsh

Birds over trout; bulls on the islands

Bay St. Louis to Perdido Pass

Mississippi Sound & Mobile Bay

The flounder run and the easy trout bite

South Atlantic

4 waters

Tybee to St. Marys

The Golden Isles

The fall feed: trout, reds and flounder

Hilton Head to Little River

The Lowcountry

Everything inshore: reds, trout, flounder, kings

Calabash to Cape Lookout

The Southern Outer Banks & Cape Fear

The Cape Lookout albie blitz

Cape Lookout to the Virginia line

The Outer Banks

The fall surf run: drum, blues, albies

Mid & North Atlantic

6 waters

Susquehanna Flats to the Bridge-Tunnel

The Chesapeake

The fall bay: birds working everywhere, the speck bite starts

Delaware Bay to Virginia's Eastern Shore

Delmarva & Delaware Bay

Fall surf: blues, drum, specks and weakfish

Cape May to Sandy Hook

The Jersey Shore

The fall run starts; bluefin push inshore

New York Harbor to Montauk, Connecticut shore

Long Island & the Sound

The fall run builds; tog season reopens

Watch Hill to Cape Cod and the Islands

Southern New England

The fall feed; tog season and the last albies

Boston to Eastport

The Gulf of Maine

Stripers leave; tuna and groundfish carry on

Pacific

5 waters

San Diego to Point Conception

Southern California Bight

Last of the pelagics; calicos fat for the fall

Point Conception to San Francisco Bay

Central Coast & San Francisco Bay

Rockfish and lingcod; the last albacore and halibut

Bodega Bay to the Oregon line

The North Coast

Late kings at the river mouths; lings move shallow

Brookings to Astoria

The Oregon Coast

Bay kings and coho; Chetco terminal kings

Columbia mouth to Neah Bay and Puget Sound

Washington Coast & Puget Sound

Coho at the river mouths; Hood Canal chums arrive

Alaska & Hawaii

3 waters

Ketchikan to Yakutat

Southeast Alaska

Last silvers; fall steelhead at Yakutat

Cook Inlet, Kenai, Kodiak and Prince William Sound

Southcentral Alaska

Last coho; Kodiak steelhead

Kauai to the Big Island

The Hawaiian Islands

Fall mahimahi and ono

Great Lakes

5 waters

Duluth to the Soo — Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Lake Superior

Fall steelhead and coho in the tributaries; lakers spawn on the reefs

Chicago to the Straits, Green Bay to Grand Traverse Bay

Lake Michigan

Tail of the run; browns and steelhead follow; Green Bay muskie

Saginaw Bay to the Straits, plus Lake St. Clair

Lake Huron & Lake St. Clair

Fall perch, steelhead, and St. Clair's big muskie

Toledo to Buffalo — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York

Lake Erie

Perch, walleye heading west, and the fall steelhead run

Niagara to the St. Lawrence — the New York shore

Lake Ontario

Tail of the salmon run; browns and steelhead follow; St. Lawrence muskie

Fresh water by state

50 waters

Guntersville to the Mobile Delta

Alabama fresh water

Fall feed on Guntersville and the Coosa

The Kenai to the Interior

Alaska fresh water

Fall steelhead and the biggest rainbows

The Colorado River to the White Mountains

Arizona fresh water

Fall bass feed

The White River to the Ouachitas

Arkansas fresh water

Fall feed

The Delta to the Sierra

California fresh water

Delta fall stripers and frogs

The Front Range to the Western Slope

Colorado fresh water

Fall browns run

The Housatonic to the Connecticut River

Connecticut fresh water

Fall bass and browns

The Brandywine to the millponds

Delaware fresh water

Fall feed

Okeechobee to the Panhandle rivers

Florida fresh water

Fall feed

Lanier to the Okefenokee

Georgia fresh water

Fall feed

Lake Wilson and the Kauai reservoirs

Hawaii fresh water

Bass and catfish

The Henry's Fork to Hells Canyon

Idaho fresh water

Clearwater B-run steelhead

The Illinois River to the Shawnee

Illinois fresh water

Fall crappie

Monroe Lake to the northern lakes

Indiana fresh water

Fall feed

The Iowa Great Lakes to the Mississippi

Iowa fresh water

Fall feed

Milford to the Neosho

Kansas fresh water

Fall feed

Kentucky Lake to Cave Run

Kentucky fresh water

Fall feed and muskie

Toledo Bend to the Atchafalaya

Louisiana fresh water

Atchafalaya fall

Sebago to the Rangeleys

Maine fresh water

Brook trout spawn

Deep Creek to the tidal Potomac

Maryland fresh water

Fall feed

Quabbin to the Connecticut River

Massachusetts fresh water

Fall bass

The inland lakes and trout rivers

Michigan fresh water

Browns run up the rivers

Mille Lacs to Lake of the Woods

Minnesota fresh water

Fall muskie

Grenada to Ross Barnett

Mississippi fresh water

Fall crappie

Table Rock to the Mississippi

Missouri fresh water

Fall crappie

The Madison to Fort Peck

Montana fresh water

Pre-spawn browns

McConaughy to the Sandhills

Nebraska fresh water

Fall feed

Pyramid Lake to Lake Mead

Nevada fresh water

Pyramid opens

Winnipesaukee to the North Country

New Hampshire fresh water

Salmon run

Round Valley to the Pine Barrens

New Jersey fresh water

Fall feed

The San Juan to Elephant Butte

New Mexico fresh water

Fall trout

The Finger Lakes to the Catskills

New York fresh water

Fall muskie

The mountains to the Roanoke

North Carolina fresh water

Fall feed

Devils Lake to Sakakawea

North Dakota fresh water

Fall pike

The inland reservoirs

Ohio fresh water

Fall feed

Texoma to Broken Bow

Oklahoma fresh water

Fall feed

The Deschutes to the Willamette

Oregon fresh water

Coho

The Susquehanna to the limestone creeks

Pennsylvania fresh water

Pre-spawn browns

The kettle ponds and the Wood River

Rhode Island fresh water

Fall bass

Santee Cooper to the mountains

South Carolina fresh water

Fall feed

The Missouri River reservoirs

South Dakota fresh water

Fall pike

Dale Hollow to Reelfoot

Tennessee fresh water

Fall feed

Sam Rayburn to the Hill Country

Texas fresh water

Fall feed

Flaming Gorge to Lake Powell

Utah fresh water

Fall browns

Lake Champlain and the mountain streams

Vermont fresh water

Brook trout

The James to Smith Mountain

Virginia fresh water

Fall feed

The Columbia to the Skagit

Washington fresh water

Kings on the redds; coho

The New River to the Greenbrier

West Virginia fresh water

Muskie

Hayward to the Winnebago system

Wisconsin fresh water

Big muskie month

The Snake to the North Platte

Wyoming fresh water

Browns run

Every species, coast to coast