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West Bay, North Bay, Main St. Andrew Bay and East Bay are live with quality-assured NOAA depth contours, exact-section FWC fish records, confidence-tagged fishing spots, seasonal forage guidance and verified access. Each page preserves its own sampled period rather than borrowing a species roster from another part of the system.
Built for bay scale
One system-wide page would mix four named bays with different salinity, channel, grass-flat and access patterns. The section footprints use official FDEP assessment units and follow FWC's St. Andrew, West, North and East Bay system, with each page evaluated independently.
Quality-assured and searchable
17,014-acre West Bay section of the St. Andrew Bay system with quality-assured NOAA survey contours, exact-section FWC fish records, mapped seagrass and official West Bay access.
5,672-acre North Bay section of the St. Andrew Bay system with quality-assured NOAA survey contours, exact-section FWC fish records, mapped seagrass and verified public access.
16,331-acre central St. Andrew Bay section with quality-assured NOAA BlueTopo and Hurricane Michael topobathymetric contours, FWC-surveyed fish occurrence, mapped seagrass, charted wrecks and verified public access.
19,102-acre East Bay section of the St. Andrew Bay system with quality-assured NOAA BlueTopo and Hurricane Michael topobathymetric contours, FWC-surveyed fish occurrence, mapped seagrass and verified public access.
Source-backed, not crowd-guessed
NOAA BlueTopoNOAA Hurricane Michael topobathyFWC stratified-random FIM dataFWC 2023 FIM reportFDEP assessment unitsFWC statewide seagrassFWC Bay County guide
Every section passed independently
West and North initially stayed on hold when a 2023-only query returned no records. A complete review of FWC's historical survey layer found direct sampling in both exact polygons during 2017–2019. With those rosters documented, all four children now pass shoreline, depth, fish, fishing-spot, forage and access checks and are included in search and the sitemap.
St. Andrew Bay map questions
Florida FWC describes St. Andrew Bay, West Bay, North Bay and East Bay as an interconnected four-bay system. DepthScout follows official Florida Department of Environmental Protection assessment units so each named bay's shoreline, depth, fish records, habitat and access can be checked independently at useful fishing-map scale.
All four named sections are live. West Bay is 87.8% directly measured, North Bay is 81.55%, Main St. Andrew Bay is 71.8% and East Bay is 69.82%. Every section exceeds 99% assessed coverage and passes the same fixed release gate.
Exact-section Florida FWC records document red drum, spotted seatrout, gray snapper and sheepshead in West and North bays during 2017–2019. The 2023 records document Gulf flounder, spotted seatrout, gray snapper and gag grouper in Main and East bays. Survey occurrence is evidence of presence, not a catch-rate forecast.
FWC's stratified-random sampling footprint changed over time. West and North bays have direct records in three consecutive years from 2017 through 2019, while Main and East bays have direct records in 2023. DepthScout uses the sampled period for each exact polygon instead of treating a missing single-year result as evidence that fish are absent.
Depth combines NOAA BlueTopo with bathymetric returns from NOAA's 2019–2020 Hurricane Michael topobathymetric lidar. Spot candidates are anchored to authoritative charted wrecks, artificial reefs and FWC mapped seagrass, and recommendation-eligible spots require directly measured bathymetry.
A Florida Panhandle calendar uses NOAA and FWC evidence for Gulf menhaden nursery movement, warm-season bay anchovy activity and fall-to-winter mullet movement. These are broad habitat-search windows; tide, salinity, weather and visible bait still control the useful daily pattern.