Learn more about the deep sea fishing in the Marco Island, 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.
The waters around Marco Island, Florida are fairly shallow, so this isn’t known as a popular destination for pelagic species such as sailfish, marlin, tuna, wahoo and mahi mahi. There are some anglers willing to go 80 to 100 miles out, but for the most part, anglers will be fishing inshore or they will be going offshore to target the reefs and wrecks along the bottom.
Bottom Fishing
Reefs & Wrecks
You aren’t going to find a lot of deep water close to the shores of Marco Island, but there are plenty of reefs and wrecks to fish in the offshore waters here. Anglers fish the offshore reefs and wrecks for grouper, snapper, king mackerel, amberjack, cobia, sharks, barracuda and many other species of fish.
Artificial Reef Locations
Visit the reef locations on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission website.
