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Clearwater Harbor fishing maps and surveyed sections

North and South Clearwater Harbor are ready with quality-assured NOAA survey contours, harbor-specific trawl evidence, confidence-tagged fishing spots, seasonal forage guidance and verified public access. Every map keeps measured, assessed-interpolated and unsupported water distinct.

2 live sections8 documented target species8 attached public access sites

Built for harbor scale

Why Clearwater Harbor is split in two

Memorial Causeway is the official management divider between Clearwater Harbor North and South. The two FDEP assessment units preserve that named split and keep the northern island, grass and channel system separate from the southern harbor, Belleair Causeway and Narrows corridor without drawing an arbitrary fishing boundary.

Quality-assured and searchable

Choose a Clearwater Harbor fishing-map section

NOAA survey contours99% assessed · 63% measured

North Clearwater Harbor

5,841-acre North Clearwater Harbor section with quality-assured NOAA and 2022 USACE survey contours, exact-polygon and named-water fish evidence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted wrecks, and verified public access.

Recorded max
20 ft
Species
Red Drum (Redfish), Spotted Seatrout, Sheepshead, Snook, Gulf Flounder
Public access
2 attached sites
Open depth map and fishing spots →
NOAA survey contours97% assessed · 70% measured

South Clearwater Harbor

3,886-acre South Clearwater Harbor section with quality-assured NOAA and 2022 USACE survey contours, named-water trawl evidence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted wreck structure, and verified unrestricted public access.

Recorded max
25 ft
Species
Red Drum (Redfish), Spotted Seatrout, Sheepshead, Snook, Gulf Flounder
Public access
6 attached sites
Open depth map and fishing spots →

Source-backed, not crowd-guessed

What is included on every live page

  • Depth: current NOAA BlueTopo plus measured 2022 USACE post-Ian topobathymetric returns, with uncertainty and survey classification retained at the cell level.
  • Fish: Pinellas County's named-water 2005-2008 Clearwater Harbor trawl tables; North also carries exact-polygon FWC observations.
  • Spots: official wreck, seagrass and oyster evidence clipped to the exact child; recommendation-eligible features require directly measured depth.
  • Seasonality: central Florida Gulf whitebait, shrimp and mullet windows presented as evidence-based search ranges rather than bite guarantees.
  • Access: Florida FWC Boat Ramp Inventory sites attached to the named harbor outline; permit-only access is excluded.

NOAA BlueTopo·2022 USACE post-Ian topobathy·Pinellas County fish and habitat report·FWC stratified-random records·FDEP assessment units·SWFWMD seagrass

Both sections passed independently

North and South Clearwater Harbor are live

Each official section passes the unchanged shoreline, measured-depth, assessed-coverage, unsupported-water and vertical-uncertainty gates. St. Joseph Sound remains outside this release because it is a separate official segment and deserves its own source and quality review.

Clearwater Harbor map questions

Frequently asked questions

Why is Clearwater Harbor divided into North and South fishing-map pages?

Pinellas County's Clearwater Harbor-St. Joseph Sound management plan defines Clearwater Harbor North and South and places their divider at Memorial Causeway. DepthScout follows the corresponding FDEP assessment units so each shoreline, survey surface, fish record, habitat feature and access site can be checked at useful bay scale.

Are both Clearwater Harbor sections live?

Yes. North Clearwater Harbor is 63.03% directly measured, 99.39% assessed and 0.61% unsupported with 1.05 m P95 uncertainty. South Clearwater Harbor is 69.85% measured, 96.72% assessed and 3.28% unsupported with 1.09 m P95 uncertainty. Both pass the unchanged release gates.

Which fish species are documented in Clearwater Harbor?

Pinellas County's 2005-2008 Clearwater Marine Aquarium trawl program rotated among sixty fixed harbor stations and supports spotted seatrout, gray snapper, gag grouper, red drum, sheepshead, Gulf flounder, black drum and common snook on the live pages. An exact-polygon FWC clip also captured Gulf flounder and gag in North Clearwater Harbor. The source table's rare bluefish record stays in the research audit because it did not clear the fixed seasonal-spot gate.

What survey data supports Clearwater Harbor depth and fishing spots?

The depth surface combines current NOAA BlueTopo measured and assessed cells with measured 2022 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers post-Hurricane Ian topobathymetric lidar. Fishing features come from official charted wreck, SWFWMD seagrass and FWC oyster records, and a feature is recommendation-eligible only where its depth cell is directly measured.

What seasonal forage guidance is included?

The central Florida Gulf forage calendar uses independent NOAA, FWC and UF/IFAS evidence for warm-season whitebait, pink-shrimp nursery movement and the fall-to-winter mullet run. These are broad search windows; tide, weather and visible bait still decide the useful day and location.