Real pages from the book, rendered from the same files we send to the printer.
The Still Tide Field Book
Fishes of Florida, drawn true
Every fish opens on its specimen plate. Turn the page for what an angler wants to know: how to tell it from its look-alikes, how big it grows, the IGFA world and Florida state records, a map of where it lives and how deep, how to fish for it, and FWC's size, bag and season limits, with a code that opens the current rules.
- 11 x 8.5 in landscape hardcover, printed casewrap with matte laminate
- Premium colour on 80# coated paper
- One spread per species: the specimen plate, then a page of field notes
- Printed to order and shipped direct
The plate, then the field notes
How to tell it
The marks that separate it from the fish it gets mistaken for, checked against the plate on the facing page.
Records
The IGFA all-tackle world record and the FWC Florida state record. Each was confirmed with two independent sources, or left out.
Where and how deep
A map of the Florida coasts it is caught on, with recorded sightings, and a depth gauge from the flats to 4,000 ft.
How to fish it
Baits, rigs, seasons and the depths Florida anglers fish, with well-known places to try.
Limits
Size, bag and season from MyFWC, Gulf and Atlantic, dated on the page, with a code that opens the current rules.
Worth knowing
A few facts you'll repeat at the dock, each with its source listed at the back of the book.
55 species in the complete edition
The book grows as we draw. Each copy is printed when it is ordered, so it always holds every species that has passed our checks.
Sharks
- Great Hammerhead Sphyrna mokarran
- Bull Shark Carcharhinus leucas
- Bonnethead Sphyrna tiburo
- White Shark Carcharodon carcharias
- Shortfin Mako Isurus oxyrinchus
- Spiny Dogfish Squalus acanthias
The Flats
- Tarpon Megalops atlanticus
- Bonefish Albula vulpes
- Permit Trachinotus falcatus
- Common Snook Centropomus undecimalis
Inshore & the Bays
- Redfish Sciaenops ocellatus
- Spotted Seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus
- Black Drum Pogonias cromis
- Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus
- Southern Flounder Paralichthys lethostigma
- Tripletail Lobotes surinamensis
- Florida Pompano Trachinotus carolinus
- Crevalle Jack Caranx hippos
- Great Barracuda Sphyraena barracuda
Groupers
- Black Grouper Mycteroperca bonaci
- Red Grouper Epinephelus morio
- Gag Mycteroperca microlepis
- Scamp Mycteroperca phenax
- Red Hind Epinephelus guttatus
- Goliath Grouper Epinephelus itajara
- Snowy Grouper Hyporthodus niveatus
Snappers
- Mutton Snapper Lutjanus analis
- Mangrove Snapper Lutjanus griseus
- Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus chrysurus
- Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus
- Lane Snapper Lutjanus synagris
- Cubera Snapper Lutjanus cyanopterus
- Silk Snapper Lutjanus vivanus
- Queen Snapper Etelis oculatus
The Reef
- Hogfish Lachnolaimus maximus
- Queen Triggerfish Balistes vetula
- Gray Triggerfish Balistes capriscus
- Queen Angelfish Holacanthus ciliaris
- Foureye Butterflyfish Chaetodon capistratus
Blue Water
- Sailfish Istiophorus platypterus
- Blue Marlin Makaira nigricans
- Swordfish Xiphias gladius
- Mahi-mahi Coryphaena hippurus
- Wahoo Acanthocybium solandri
- Yellowfin Tuna Thunnus albacares
- Blackfin Tuna Thunnus atlanticus
- King Mackerel Scomberomorus cavalla
- Spanish Mackerel Scomberomorus maculatus
- Cobia Rachycentron canadum
- African Pompano Alectis ciliaris
- Greater Amberjack Seriola dumerili
The Deep
- Golden Tilefish Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps
- Blackbelly Rosefish Helicolenus dactylopterus
Shellfish
- Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus
- Stone Crab Menippe mercenaria
Checked twice, dated on the page
Limits are copied word for word from MyFWC.com, and a script checks every one against a dated copy of the page before a book is printed. Sizes and depths come from FishBase. Records need two independent sources that agree. A second researcher then rechecks every species against its sources and against the plate. If a fact can't be confirmed, it isn't printed.
Regulations change, and state and federal rules differ by coast and by water. The limits printed here were copied from MyFWC.com on the date shown on each page. Always check MyFWC.com or the free Fish|Hunt FL app before you keep a fish.