Lake Jackson

Fishing and stocking

Redear sunfish water, stocked through the 2024-25 season program; 16,800 fish in the published allocation. A 3,695-acre lake, and one of 4 stocked waters on the Leon County record.

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program 2024-25 season

best window 10:38 pm-12:38 am solunar major today

1 species

16,800 fish allocated

3,695 acres (NHD)

What swims here

Redear sunfish 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	Redear sunfish		16,800

When to fish Lake Jackson

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	10:15 am-12:15 pm and 10:38 pm-12:38 am	4:32-5:32 am and 4:50-5:50 pm
Tomorrow	11:01 am-1:01 pm	5:34-6:34 am and 5:21-6:21 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 panfish (redear sunfish on the season program here, stillwater)

Live bait	waxworms, crickets, and redworms out-fish everything for bluegill
Small tubes and grubs	1 to 2 inch plastics for crappie around brush
Long telescoping pole	reach the pockets without spooking the school

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
Piney Z Lake	10 mi	2024-25 season
J T Budd Pond	12 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Talquin	12 mi	2024-25 season
Chattahoochee River (WMA) GA	34 mi	Sep 25
Lake Seminole	37 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.