Live bait scores on both Florida coasts

The Florida mullet tracker is a live dashboard for the fall bait migration on both Florida coasts. It scores each station from public wind, tide, pressure, water temperature, and river data, plots crowdsourced school sightings on a map, and highlights the next best window — Atlantic beaches from Northeast Florida to Miami, and Gulf passes and river mouths from Pensacola to Marco Island.

Each station gets a transparent 0–100 score. Atlantic beaches are scored on season timing, wind direction and speed, the recent NE-to-E wind pattern, and tide stage. Gulf passes use an exit score built from cold fronts (pressure drops), north wind, cooling water, outgoing tide strength, the moon, and river flow. Sightings are shown next to the score but are not part of it yet, so the rating stays grounded in free public data even when reports are sparse.

Open the live migration map on the tracker and scan recent crowd reports station by station. The run moves north to south, so Northeast Florida beaches usually light up first, then Ponce Inlet, Cocoa Beach, Sebastian Inlet, Fort Pierce, Jupiter, and eventually Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach. Pair the map with each beach's opportunity score before you drive.

Check in the morning before you leave and again after the first cold front or wind shift. The tracker refreshes coastal conditions throughout the day and surfaces the next best window over the coming ~48 hours, so you can time falling tides and favorable NE-through-E wind instead of guessing from social media alone.