Fishing in Jacksonville
Florida · Southeastern Piedmont & Coastal Plain · hardiness zone 10a
Fall · September 14, 2026
Jacksonville, Florida
Now
28°C · Clear
Today
35° / 25°
Sun
07:10 – 19:33
Moon
Waxing Crescent · solunar good
Warm water holds less oxygen. Fish the springs, the inflows and the deep water, and release quickly.
- Largemouth bassbest now — Cruising the weed edges, pads and shallow flats, ambushing anything that moves across the top.
- Black crappiebest now — Suspended over brush and around lit docks after dark, looking upward for anything silhouetted.
In the water now · September
What's biting
The sport fish active near Jacksonville, Florida in September — where they hold, how to know one on the line, and the tactic that usually works. Check your licence and the current limits before you go.
FishSep–JunBlack crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Silvery with irregular black speckling, a deep flat body and seven or eight dorsal spines.
Where and how to catch it →
FishMay–OctChannel catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
Deeply forked tail, scattered dark spots on young fish, and long whiskers.
Writing your field guide — reading the forecast, the moon and the map…
Overhead · Jacksonville, Florida
The sky over the water
The two clocks nothing on the ground can argue with: the length of the day, and the phase of the moon.
The sun
12h 21m of light
Sunrise
07:11
Solar noon
13:21
Sunset
19:32
A month from now the day will be 0h 54m shorter. Enough light for steady growth.
Right now · Jacksonville, Florida
Forces at work
Nothing here is a guess. Each of these is read from this week's forecast and this location's climate record, and each one is pushing the season one way or the other.
- Worth watching
The moon
Waxing Crescent · 11%
Waxing, 3 days old. Full moon in 11 days. Fishing outlook: good.
It moves water — in the sea, in a lake's edge, and, by long tradition, in the sap of a plant. Fish feed hardest on the days around new and full.
- Working for you
Wind
8 km/h now · 26 peak
A working breeze: it ripples the surface, drifts a boat at a fishable speed, and stacks bait on the windward shore. Anglers call it a walleye chop.
It pollinates corn and grasses, dries soil, breaks stems — and it decides where the bait, and therefore the fish, end up.
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