Panfish
Schooling species accessible to shore anglers. Yellow perch run the lower Susquehanna in late winter; crappie hold structure in most regional reservoirs.
Inland Bass
Largemouth in the tidal grass and reservoirs; smallmouth in the cooler upper-Potomac and mountain rivers.
Trout
Cold tailwaters and stocked freestone streams from the Gunpowder to the Catoctin to the Yough.
Salmon, Steelhead & Char
The coldwater migrants and deepwater char — Great Lakes chinook, coho, and steelhead staged off the tributaries, lake trout in the cold depths, and landlocked kokanee salmon trolled in the reservoirs of the Mountain West.
Chinook Salmon
Top today: Kenai River (Soldotna) — 92/100 IDEAL
Coho Salmon
Top today: Kenai River (Soldotna) — 92/100 IDEAL
Steelhead
Top today: Trinity River (Lewiston) — 92/100 IDEAL
Lake Trout
Top today: Flaming Gorge Reservoir — 68/100 GOOD
Kokanee Salmon
Top today: Georgetown Lake — 68/100 GOOD
Catfish
Blue cats are the largest inshore fishery on the East Coast right now; channels are everywhere and never go off.
Pike, Pickerel & Walleye
Toothy ambush predators. Walleye is the prized cool-water table fish from Deep Creek to the prairie reservoirs; northern pike and muskellunge are the big-water apex predators; chain pickerel range widely, including tidal MD tributaries and Eastern Shore millponds.
Chain Pickerel
Top today: Deep Creek Lake — 29/100 SKIP
Walleye
Top today: Detroit River (Wyandotte) — 92/100 IDEAL
Northern Pike
Top today: Lake Coeur d’Alene — 68/100 GOOD
Muskellunge
Top today: Lake Minnetonka — 68/100 GOOD
Invasive
Established and expanding. Take everything you catch — there is no daily limit and no closed season.
Coastal & Inshore
The inshore fishery along the surf, bays, and inlets — from the Mid-Atlantic striper-and-flounder run to the redfish and seatrout of the South.
Bluefish
Top today: Assateague Island — MD Surf — 100/100 IDEAL
Summer Flounder
Top today: Sandy Neck Beach Park — 100/100 IDEAL
Red Drum
Top today: False Cape State Park — 100/100 IDEAL
Spotted Seatrout
Top today: St. Augustine Beach — 92/100 IDEAL
Subtropical Inshore
The warm-water gamefish of Florida and the Gulf — cold-sensitive ambush predators around passes, bridges, and mangroves.
Reef & Pelagic
Structure fish on jetties, piers, and reefs, plus pelagic visitors that ride the warm currents up each summer.
Spanish Mackerel
Top today: Kiptopeke State Park — 84/100 GREAT
Cobia
3 access points target this species — check back when the season opens.
Sheepshead
Top today: Kiptopeke State Park — 84/100 GREAT
Atlantic Spadefish
Top today: Kiptopeke State Park — 84/100 GREAT
More Species
Additional target species we track in regions where coverage is newer — grouped here as more locations come online.
Cutthroat Trout
Top today: Green River below Flaming Gorge — 78/100 GREAT
White Bass
Top today: Sandusky River (Fremont) — 86/100 IDEAL
Black Drum
Top today: Gulf Shores Public Beach — 88/100 IDEAL
Landlocked Salmon
Top today: Lake Memphremagog (Newport) — 60/100 GOOD
Sockeye Salmon
Top today: Kenai River (Soldotna) — 100/100 IDEAL
Pacific Halibut
Top today: Homer / Kachemak Bay — 86/100 IDEAL
Arctic Grayling
1 access point target this species — check back when the season opens.
California Halibut
Top today: Morro Bay (Morro Strand State Beach) — 68/100 GOOD
Barred Surfperch
Top today: Morro Bay (Morro Strand State Beach) — 80/100 GREAT
White Seabass
Top today: Morro Bay (Morro Strand State Beach) — 68/100 GOOD
Rockfish
Top today: Santa Cruz Main Beach — 86/100 IDEAL
Lingcod
Top today: Santa Cruz Main Beach — 86/100 IDEAL
Giant Trevally
Top today: Salt Pond Beach Park — 92/100 IDEAL
Bonefish
Top today: Waikiki Beach — 92/100 IDEAL