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Six Pine Island Sound and Cayo Costa pages are ready with quality-assured NOAA survey contours, exact-polygon FWC fish records, confidence-tagged fishing spots, seasonal forage guidance and verified public access. Measured, assessed-interpolated and unsupported water remain distinct on every map.
Built for bay scale
One page would mix upper and lower sound flats, Pelican Bay at Cayo Costa, Captiva Passage, the narrow mangrove corridors of Matlacha Pass, and the Caloosahatchee-influenced water of San Carlos Bay. Official FDEP assessment units and the exact NOAA Captiva Passage and Pelican Bay footprints provide stable named boundaries whose shoreline, depth, fish evidence and access can be checked without drawing arbitrary fishing-map boundaries.
Quality-assured and searchable
31,221-acre Upper Pine Island Sound section with quality-assured NOAA direct survey soundings and assessed contours, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified public access.
17,401-acre Lower Pine Island Sound section with quality-assured NOAA direct survey soundings and assessed contours, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified named-water public access.
11,799-acre Matlacha Pass section with quality-assured 2022 NOAA topobathymetric lidar and direct survey soundings, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified public access.
18,924-acre San Carlos Bay section with quality-assured 2022 NOAA topobathymetric lidar and direct survey soundings, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and oyster habitat, charted structure, and verified public access.
227-acre Captiva Passage fishing map with NOAA BlueTopo survey contours (93.06% measured, 100% assessed), source-traceable coastal structure, exact-polygon FWC fish occurrence, sourced forage timing and verified public access.
291-acre Pelican Bay fishing map with NOAA BlueTopo shallow-water contours (91.08% measured, 99.97% assessed), exact 1,045-record FWC fish and forage, measured pier and seagrass spots, Cayo Costa and mainland boat access, three forage calendars and current Florida rules.
Source-backed, not crowd-guessed
NOAA BlueTopo2022 NOAA pre-Ian topobathyUSGS EAARL surveyFWC stratified-random FIM dataFDEP assessment unitsFWC statewide seagrass
Every section passed independently
Every official section passes the unchanged shoreline, directly measured depth, assessed coverage, unsupported-water and vertical-uncertainty gates. Access records are also constrained by official park or FWC status, named-water matching and a documented shoreline-connection distance.
Pine Island Sound map questions
DepthScout follows four official Florida Department of Environmental Protection assessment units—Upper and Lower Pine Island Sound, Matlacha Pass and San Carlos Bay—plus the exact NOAA Captiva Passage and Pelican Bay footprints. The named split keeps grass flats, mangrove shorelines, Cayo Costa shallows, passes, Caloosahatchee influence and open-bay channels at useful scale while every polygon is tested independently.
All six pages are live. Directly measured coverage is 78.69% in Upper Pine Island Sound, 79.91% in Lower Pine Island Sound, 98.63% in Matlacha Pass, 97.62% in San Carlos Bay, 93.06% in Captiva Passage and 91.08% in Pelican Bay. The first five pages are 100% assessed and Pelican Bay is 99.97% assessed; every page passes the unchanged uncertainty and unsupported-water gates.
Exact-polygon Florida FWC Fisheries-Independent Monitoring records document sixteen app-supported targets across the system, including 718 records and 80 events inside Captiva Passage and 1,045 records and 82 events inside Pelican Bay. Each child page carries its full exact-section occurrence roster; low-count records are labeled as occurrence rather than abundance, and unsupported seasonal combinations return no fishing spot.
All sections combine NOAA BlueTopo with named direct NOAA hydrographic-survey soundings. Matlacha Pass and San Carlos Bay also use measured 2022 NOAA pre–Hurricane Ian topobathymetric lidar and 2003 USGS EAARL lidar. Fishing candidates are anchored to official wreck, reef, seagrass, oyster and measured-depth evidence.
Yes. Every section has verified public access. Most use open Florida FWC Boat Ramp Inventory sites; Pelican Bay combines exact Cayo Costa State Park private-vessel day use with the connected Lavender's Landing mainland ramp. The page preserves current park, ferry, overnight, ramp-hours, fee and parking limitations instead of attaching private, closed or differently named facilities.