Lake Ida

Fishing and stocking

Hybrid striped bass water, stocked through the 2024-25 season program; 8,500 fish in the published allocation. A 147-acre lake, and one of 9 stocked waters on the Palm Beach County record.

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program 2024-25 season

best window 10:20 pm-12:20 am solunar major today

1 species

8,500 fish allocated

147 acres (NHD)

What swims here

Hybrid striped bass (wiper) illustration

Hybrid striped bass (wiper) 1 allocation

Season program record

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission publishes this water by season or program window, not by dated schedule, so there are no truck dates to list; the rows below are the published program allocations. The Florida season shape statewide: year round, reported by fiscal year.

Agency feed checked today.

Season	Species	Size	Fish
2024-25 season	Hybrid striped bass (wiper)		8,500

When to fish Lake Ida

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	9:57-11:57 am and 10:20 pm-12:20 am	4:15-5:15 am and 4:34-5:34 pm
Tomorrow	10:44 am-12:44 pm	5:14-6:14 am and 5:07-6:07 pm

Moon: waxing gibbous, 92% lit. These are solunar periods, the traditional feeding-time theory: majors around the moon's transit overhead and underfoot, minors around moonrise and moonset. Theory, not a measurement. Times are Eastern Time (EDT).

What the record actually says

Stocked through the 2024-25 season program

Computed this evening, Oct 23

Gear for this water

For the striped bass and hybrids (hybrid striped bass (wiper) on the season program here, stillwater)

Live or cut shad	the reservoir standard where legal
Topwater walkers	early mornings when they push bait to the surface
Medium-heavy rod	7 ft with 15 lb line minimum; hybrids hit like freight

Suggestions follow from what the state actually stocks here and what kind of water it is, nothing else. No sponsored placements.

Nearby stocked waters

The closest waters with stocking pages of their own, straight-line miles from this one.

Water	Distance	Most recent
Caloosa Park Lake FMA	1.1 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Osborne	7.9 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Clarke	11 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Okeeheelee	13 mi	2024-25 season
Okeeheelee Park Lake	13 mi	2024-25 season

Records from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (official page). Placement from USGS GNIS and the National Hydrography Dataset. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Florida fishing regulations.