St. Johns River

Fishing and stocking

Stocked through the 2024-25 season program: striped bass and hybrid striped bass; 372,560 fish in the published allocation.

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program 2024-25 season

best window 10:27 pm-12:27 am solunar major today

2 species

372,560 fish allocated

What swims here

Striped bass 2 allocations

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	Fish
2024-25 season	Hybrid striped bass (wiper)	355,000
2024-25 season	Striped bass	8,229
2024-25 season	Striped bass	9,331

When to fish St. Johns River

	Major periods (~2 h)	Minor periods (~1 h)
Today	10:04 am-12:04 pm and 10:27 pm-12:27 am	4:21-5:21 am and 4:40-5:40 pm
Tomorrow	10:50 am-12:50 pm	5:22-6:22 am and 5:11-6:11 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 (striped bass on the season program here)

Flutter spoons and swimbaits	match the shad; count down to suspended fish
Live or cut shad	the reservoir standard where legal
Topwater walkers	early mornings when they push bait to the surface

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
Lake Bryant	30 mi	2024-25 season
Spring Lake	37 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Tuscawilla	37 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Sampson	40 mi	2024-25 season
Lake Lillian	41 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.