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The year-round season chart

When is each fish worth chasing? This is the whole year at a glance: 138 species down the side, twelve months across the top, and a mark in every month a fish is active, worked out from each species' own seasonal notes. For a deeper look at right now, see what's biting this month.

Timing follows a temperate Northern Hemisphere pattern and shifts with your latitude and water. In the Southern Hemisphere, flip it by six months. A guide to plan around, not a guarantee.

SpeciesJFMAMJJASOND
Alligator Gar
American Eel
American Paddlefish
American Shad
Arctic Grayling
Atlantic Bonito
Atlantic Cod
Atlantic Croaker
Atlantic Mackerel
Atlantic Salmon
Bighead Carp
Bigmouth Buffalo
Black Drum
Black Grouper
Black Sea Bass
Blackfin Tuna
Blue Catfish
Blue Tilapia
Bluefish
Bluegill
Bonefish
Bonnethead Shark
Bowfin
Brook Trout
Brown Bullhead
Brown Trout
Bull Trout
Bullhead Catfish
Burbot
California Halibut
California Yellowtail
Chain Pickerel
Channel Catfish
Chinook Salmon
Chum Salmon
Cisco
Clown Knifefish
Cobia
Coho Salmon
Common Carp
Crappie
Crevalle Jack
Cutthroat Trout
Dolly Varden
False Albacore
Flathead Catfish
Florida Pompano
Flounder
Freshwater Drum
Gag Grouper
Golden Trout
Goldeye
Goliath Grouper
Grass Carp
Gray Triggerfish
Great Barracuda
Greater Amberjack
Green Sunfish
Grouper
Guadalupe Bass
Hogfish
King Mackerel
Kokanee Salmon
Ladyfish
Lake Sturgeon
Lake Trout
Lake Whitefish
Lane Snapper
Largemouth Bass
Lingcod
Longear Sunfish
Longnose Gar
Mahi-Mahi
Mangrove Snapper
Mayan Cichlid
Mountain Whitefish
Muskellunge
Mutton Snapper
Northern Pike
Northern Snakehead
Pacific Halibut
Peacock Bass
Permit
Pinfish
Pink Salmon
Pollock
Pumpkinseed Sunfish
Quillback
Rainbow Trout
Red Grouper
Red Snapper
Redbreast Sunfish
Redear Sunfish
Redfish
Redhorse Sucker
Rock Bass
Sailfish
Sauger
Scup / Porgy
Sea Robin
Sheepshead
Shoal Bass
Silver Carp
Smallmouth Bass
Smallmouth Buffalo
Snook
Sockeye Salmon
Southern Kingfish / "Whiting"
Spanish Mackerel
Splake
Spotted Bass
Spotted Gar
Spotted Seatrout
Spotted Sunfish
Steelhead
Striped Bass
Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) - Freshwater & Hybrid
Summer Flounder
Tarpon
Tautog
Tiger Muskie
Tiger Trout
Tripletail
Vermilion Rockfish
Wahoo
Walleye
Warmouth
Weakfish
White Bass
White Catfish
White Perch
White Seabass
White Sturgeon
White Sucker
Winter Flounder
Yellow Perch
Yellowfin Tuna
Yellowtail Snapper

A filled month means the species is generally worth targeting, not that it vanishes the rest of the year. Use it to plan a trip or a species hit-list, then check the day itself with the today's conditions tool and time a fish's spawn with the spawning temperature chart.

Free to cite: link back to this page. Activity is drawn from our own species notes and reflects typical temperate timing.

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