Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Fort Pierce, FL area.
Fishing for Pelagic Fish
What are Pelagic Fish?
Pelagic fish get their name from the area that they inhabit called the pelagic zone. The pelagic zone is the largest habitat on earth with a volume of 330 million cubic miles. Different species of pelagic fish are found throughout this zone. Numbers and distributions vary regionally and vertically, depending on availability of light, nutrients, dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, and pressure.
With the gulf stream waters only 17 to 20 miles out of the Fort Pierce Inlet, anglers have a fairly short boat ride out to the deep waters that are home to sailfish, wahoo, marlin, tuna and mahi mahi. There are plenty of fishing charters available here to take you out to target the pelagic species.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
There are also plenty of reefs and wrecks to fish in the offshore waters out of the Fort Pierce Inlet. Some of the types of fish you may be targeting on the reefs and wrecks are snapper, grouper, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, amberjack, cobia, sharks, hogfish, tripletail, jack crevalle, barracuda and more.
Artificial Reef Locations
Visit the reef locations on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission website.
