Marl Pits FMA

Fishing and stocking

Stocked through the 2024-25 season program: redear sunfish; 2,500 fish in the published allocation.

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program 2024-25 season

best window 10:28 pm-12:28 am solunar major today

1 species

2,500 fish allocated

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		2,500

When to fish Marl Pits FMA

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	10:05 am-12:05 pm and 10:28 pm-12:28 am	4:23-5:23 am and 4:42-5:42 pm
Tomorrow	10:51 am-12:51 pm	5:22-6:22 am and 5:15-6:15 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)

Ultralight rod and small jigs	1/32 to 1/64 oz jigs under a float; 2 to 4 lb line
Live bait	waxworms, crickets, and redworms out-fish everything for bluegill
Small tubes and grubs	1 to 2 inch plastics for crappie around brush

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
Webb Lake	1.8 mi	2024-25 season
Yellow Fever Creek Preserve Pond	10 mi	2024-25 season
Caloosahatchee River	32 mi	2024-25 season
Scherer-Thaxton Preserve Lake	38 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Osprey	38 mi	2024-25 season

Records from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (official page). Placement from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission coordinates. Schedules change without notice. Seasons, limits, and licenses: Florida fishing regulations.