Indian River Lagoon fishing maps and surveyed sections
North, Titusville, Cocoa and connected Sebastian Inlet are ready with quality-assured NOAA survey contours, exact-polygon FWC fish records, confidence-tagged fishing spots, local forage guidance and verified public access. Seven southern assessment units remain documented without being prematurely published.
4 live sections9 documented live target species20 attached public access sites
Built for lagoon scale
Why Indian River Lagoon is split into sections
FDEP assessment units divide the lagoon at named causeways and management boundaries. Preserving ten non-overlapping children avoids one oversized page mixing more than one hundred miles of distinct survey footprints, inlet influence, habitat, fishing evidence and access conditions.
Quality-assured and searchable
Choose a live Indian River Lagoon fishing-map section
21,620-acre North Indian River Lagoon section above Max Brewer Causeway with quality-assured NOAA BlueTopo and 2022 Indian River Lagoon topobathymetric contours, exact-polygon FWC fish evidence, mapped seagrass and verified public access.
Recorded max
23 ft
Species
Red Drum (Redfish), Spotted Seatrout, Snook, Permit
20,072-acre Titusville Indian River Lagoon section between Max Brewer and NASA Causeways with quality-assured NOAA BlueTopo and 2022 Indian River Lagoon topobathymetric contours, exact-polygon FWC fish evidence, mapped seagrass and verified public access.
15,947-acre Cocoa Indian River Lagoon section between NASA Causeway and SR 520 with quality-assured NOAA BlueTopo and 2022 Indian River Lagoon topobathymetric contours, exact-polygon FWC fish evidence, mapped seagrass and verified public access.
Depth: current NOAA BlueTopo plus measured 2022 Indian River Lagoon topobathymetric returns, with interpolated and unsupported cells labeled separately.
Fish: 1996-2023 FWC stratified-random records clipped to each official FDEP lagoon child or the exact NOAA Sebastian Inlet polygon.
Spots: official FWC seagrass and NOAA charted-feature evidence; recommendation-eligible features require directly measured bathymetry.
Seasonality: exact lagoon-section bay anchovy plus Sebastian Inlet pinfish, pink shrimp and mullet evidence shown as source-backed search patterns rather than catch guarantees.
Access: unrestricted Florida FWC Boat Ramp Inventory sites matched by named-water connection; permit-only facilities are excluded.
Their official boundaries, shoreline QA, exact fish surveys and feature inventories are retained in the research pipeline, but they are absent from search, the public lake manifest and the sitemap until every fixed depth gate passes.
Rockledge Indian River Lagoon: Measured coverage reaches 55.66%, below the fixed 60% gate, and 33.60% of water cells remain unsupported after 2022 topobathy and datum-valid H09606 soundings.
Melbourne Indian River Lagoon: Measured coverage reaches 55.81% and retained-surface P95 uncertainty remains 2.19 m after 2022 topobathy and datum-valid H09606 soundings.
Sebastian Indian River Lagoon: Measured coverage reaches 50.38% and retained-surface P95 uncertainty remains 2.17 m after the 2022 and post-Milton 2024 topobathymetric surveys.
North Vero Indian River Lagoon: P95 vertical uncertainty remains 2.09 m because 18.02% of water cells are interpolated after the 2022 and post-Milton 2024 surveys.
Central Vero Indian River Lagoon: Measured coverage is 39.97%, assessed coverage is 89.07%, and retained-surface P95 uncertainty is 2.08 m.
South Vero Indian River Lagoon: P95 vertical uncertainty remains 2.09 m because 34.62% of water cells are interpolated after the 2022 and post-Milton 2024 surveys.
Fort Pierce Indian River Lagoon: Despite 92.03% measured coverage, 7.36% of water cells remain interpolated and keep P95 vertical uncertainty at 2.06 m after the 2018, 2022 and 2024 NOAA surveys.
Indian River Lagoon map questions
Frequently asked questions
Why is Indian River Lagoon divided into ten fishing-map sections?
DepthScout follows ten non-overlapping Florida Department of Environmental Protection assessment units from the northern lagoon through Fort Pierce. Named causeways, Sebastian Inlet and the Vero Beach management boundaries keep this exceptionally long estuary at useful fishing-map scale while every shoreline, depth cell, fish record, feature and access connection is tested independently.
Which Indian River Lagoon fishing-map sections are live now?
North Indian River Lagoon above Max Brewer Causeway, the Titusville section between Max Brewer and NASA Causeways, the Cocoa section between NASA Causeway and SR 520, and the connected Sebastian Inlet page are live. Sebastian Inlet is 100% directly measured, reaches 27.7 feet and carries exact-polygon FWC occurrence evidence.
Why are Rockledge through Fort Pierce listed but not searchable as maps?
Their official boundaries and exact FWC fish clips pass, but one or more unchanged bathymetry gates fail. DepthScout tested 2022 Indian River Lagoon topobathy, 2024 post-Hurricane-Milton topobathy, datum-valid H09606 soundings, and the 2018 Highland Beach-to-Fort Pierce survey where each footprint applies. Interpolated or unsupported water remains too extensive to publish those sections without a waiver, so the overview documents them as quality holds instead.
Which fish species are documented on the live northern lagoon maps?
Exact-polygon FWC Fisheries-Independent Monitoring records directly support the published rosters on North, Titusville and Cocoa. At Sebastian Inlet, 123 exact-polygon records across 15 events support sheepshead, crevalle jack, great barracuda, Gulf flounder, common snook, spotted seatrout, gray snapper and permit; counts indicate occurrence rather than catch rate.
What forage and access guidance is included?
The three lagoon sections retain their exact bay-anchovy and mullet evidence. Sebastian Inlet adds exact FWC pink-shrimp, striped-mullet and 857-pinfish evidence with three source-backed search windows. Public launches come from the FWC Boat Ramp Inventory and permit-only facilities are excluded.