UTER
Photo: Farren Dell Rossman, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Caranx hippos
How to catch Jack crevalle
Jack crevalle feed in 66–92°F water and bite best at 72–88°F. Fish Scouter's season calendar follows them in 17 waters; in October they are at their peak in Tampa Bay & Sarasota, Charlotte Harbor & the Islands, The Ten Thousand Islands & Everglades and 5 more.
15 pts · trophy at 34"Feeds 66–92°FBest 72–88°FIn season nowPass / inletBeach / surfGrass flatDock / pilingsBridgeChannel edge
About
The jack crevalle: the strongest fish for its size in the water, hunting in packs that blow up bait on the surface. Not for the table; for the pull.
How to fish it
Find the blow-up, cast into it, reel like you mean it. Then hold on. Any tackle, any tide, any month.
What it eats
anything on the surface, fasttopwater plugslive baitbig flies
Live bait for it
Pilchards (whitebait)Free-lined or under a cork, hooked through the nose on a #1 to 2/0 circle hook. The one bait that catches everything inshore.
Finger mulletLip-hooked on a 2/0 to 4/0 circle hook and free-lined, or on a fish-finder rig in the surf. Cut mullet on the bottom for redfish and drum.
PinfishHooked through the back ahead of the dorsal on a 2/0 to 4/0 circle hook; the small ones free-lined, the big ones on a fish-finder rig.What to fish it with
the sizes that fish itLeader30–40 lb fluorocarbon
Hook3/0–5/0
Jig head1/2–1 oz
Braid20–30 lb
The rule
not confirmed hereNo size limit; bag limit under the general aggregate — confirm at MyFWC.
The current rule →Where it is, month by month
PPeakSSpawningAArriving·AroundLLeaving
Florida
Gulf of Mexico