Jupiter Offshore Fishing ReportWeek of Nov 2 · out of Jupiter Inlet

Weather first: NO-GO Tuesday and NO-GO Wednesday. Tuesday brings 13-18 knot east wind with gusts to 23 and steep 7 to 7.7 foot seas at 6-7 seconds, plus an 86% rain chance around sunrise. Wednesday eases the wind but leaves 5 to 6.8 foot northeast seas on a short period — still no window. Thursday is the fallback, rated CAUTION: 7-9 knot east-northeast wind and 3.9 to 4.5 foot northeast swell at 6-7 seconds from early morning onward. Confidence is low, so check the buoys before you leave the dock. The moon is a thin waning crescent by Thursday, so there is no big overnight feed to blunt the daytime bite; the strongest window runs mid-morning, roughly 8:30 to 10:30 AM, with a secondary push mid-afternoon around moonset.

The Stream's inside edge off Fort Pierce is the story. At Muliphen Reef, 31 nm up the beach from Jupiter in 61 fathoms, the inshore edge of the Gulf Stream has set up a moderate but very real color change — a 6.0x green-to-blue shift (0.14 to 0.82 mg/m³), with the green, bait-rich water to the west and clean blue water to the east, spread across about 12 nm. Riding with it is a broad 5.7°F step in temperature, the water warming gradually to the east over the same 12 nm. That is not a line to troll back and forth, but it is a real water-mass change, and it has held in place for three days — long enough for pilchards and threadfin to stack on the green side and the predators to find them. This is the classic November setup for sailfish: work the cooler, greener inside edge with live threadfin herring or scaled sardines on kites, and slow-troll the clean warm side for blackfin tuna and wahoo. The warm surface layer here runs down to about 336 ft, with the steepest temperature drop between roughly 300 and 510 ft, so the bait has plenty of warm water column to hold in over this shelf. The northward current is running hard along this edge; set up on the inside and let the drift carry you north along the color change.

Nine miles north-northwest of Muliphen Reef, Muliphen Reef is where the inshore temperature and chlorophyll fronts line up almost perfectly — within 11 km and 6° of parallel — in 14 fathoms. The SST front here is broad, a modest 2.4°F break spread over 15 nm with the warm side east, so treat it as a gradual warming toward the Stream rather than an edge. The chlorophyll front is moderate, 2.0x green-to-blue with the productive side west. This feature only showed up yesterday, so it is newly forming — worth a look on the way out to the deeper edge rather than a destination. In 80-ish foot water with greener bait water inshore, this is king mackerel and Spanish mackerel territory on the green side; slow-troll threadfin herring or cigar minnows along the fronts, and keep a sailfish bait out — a few of them will push in this shallow when the bait is thick. Three wrecks sit within 5-6 nm for a cero mackerel or grouper drop (black grouper is open in November).

Tight to the beach, Fort Pierce Inlet sits three miles north-northeast of Fort Pierce Inlet in 6 fathoms, in the coolest water on the chart (the inshore minimum is 75.6°F). A chlorophyll hotspot peaking at 1.89 mg/m³ has held here for three days — green-brown water that is partly runoff, but in early November it is also where the fall mullet run piles up along the beach. Spanish mackerel and king mackerel will be on the bait schools in this cooler water, and pompano work the beach troughs. Cast-net mullet and pilchards here before heading offshore, and fish the wreck 2.5 nm away for cero and snapper. The 76°F water here is the only place on the chart that is truly in the king mackerel comfort zone.

Across the Stream on the Little Bahama Bank, Shallow Bank CHL Front is a sharp 2.3x chlorophyll edge (1.29 vs 0.56 mg/m³, green side southwest) in 9 fathoms that has persisted three days. It is 88 nm from Jupiter and in Bahamian waters, so it is not a Thursday-from-Jupiter day trip, but if you are already on the bank it marks where bait is concentrating on the shallows: barracuda and cero mackerel patrol the edge, and mutton snapper and yellowtail snapper hold on the hard bottom around it.

Weather first: NO-GO Tuesday. East wind 17-20 knots with gusts to 26 and steep 4.5 to 5.2 foot northeast chop at 5-6 seconds leaves no window for the run. Wednesday is CAUTION — still over 4 feet until midday, then 14 knot east-northeast wind and easing 3.3 to 3.7 foot seas from early afternoon on, a short and low-confidence window. Thursday is the day to plan around: 10-12 knot northeast wind and 2.4 to 2.8 foot seas, with a brief gust spike mid-afternoon to watch. With the moon down to a thin crescent, there is no overnight gorge to slow the morning bite — expect consistent daytime feeding, with the strongest push mid-morning Thursday (roughly 8:30 to 10:30 AM) and a secondary window mid-afternoon.

The best water on the chart is on the west edge of the Little Bahama Bank. At Tiger Beach, six miles north of Tiger Beach and 51 nm from Jupiter, a sharp SST front carries a 3.3°F break across just 4 nm, with the warm, clean Gulf Stream water on the west side and cooler bank water to the east. This break sits right on the bank edge in 58 fathoms, where the bottom falls away under the Stream — the kind of temperature-on-structure alignment that holds fish. The thermocline here is shoaled hard: the warm layer ends at only about 150 ft and the steepest drop runs 155 to 255 ft, down to 81°F, well shallower than the 275 ft midshore average. That lifted thermocline is a sign of upwelling along the drop, pulling nutrients and bait up under the front. A 0.3 knot current runs east-northeast across the break, spreading slightly as it crosses, and the west side of the edge is the clean, high-visibility water where the predators hunt. This is November wahoo water first and foremost — high-speed troll rigged ballyhoo and cigar minnows along the warm side of the break right over the drop, early, and expect blackfin tuna on the same edge. Sailfish push along this bank edge in the fall as well; a kite with live threadfin or sardines on the cooler side, where bait holds, is a strong second rod. Mahi will show on any debris collecting along the break. Note the modest score on this spot reflects a single-day signal — it is the sharpest temperature structure on the chart, and it sits on the right bottom, but it has not yet been tracked for persistence.

North along the same bank edge, Bank Edge CHL Break in 20 fathoms (62 nm from Jupiter) marks a moderate 3.7x chlorophyll color change from 0.13 to 0.48 mg/m³ across a 12 nm transition, with the greener bank water to the east and clean Stream water to the west. This boundary has held for three days, and a 0.5 knot current runs north-northeast along it, pushing bait up the edge. Where the Stream wraps around the north end of the bank, the temperature pattern shows the same warm-outside, cool-on-the-bank contrast you see down at Tiger Beach. Work the clean side of the color change for blackfin tuna and wahoo, drag ballyhoo along the shade line for mahi, and expect barracuda on anything you pull across the shallower bank water. Reef structure sits about 14 nm away for a bottom detour.

South of the bank in the deep water, two warm patches round out the zone. Deep Channel Warm Patch is an 83.5°F warm anomaly in 264 fathoms (85 nm out) that appeared yesterday, with a light 0.2 knot drift to the west-northwest. The surface signal is weak — the water around it averages 82.6°F — but the depth is right: roughly 1,500 ft of water with the steepest temperature drop between 510 and 610 ft, down to 70.6°F. That makes it a daytime swordfish deep-drop option with rigged longfin squid on the bottom, and the warm surface layer is comfortable for mahi and wahoo on the troll between drops. Farther east, Providence Channel, six miles east of the Northwest Providence Channel in 517 fathoms and 109 nm from Jupiter, holds an 83.6°F warm anomaly that has persisted two days, with a 0.4 knot current running west. The water here is the cleanest blue on the chart (midshore chlorophyll bottoms out near 0.09 mg/m³) and the warmest at the surface — blue marlin water in the fall, with mahi and wahoo on ballyhoo and blue runners along the channel. At 109 nm with low-confidence weather on both fallback days, it is a reach from Jupiter; treat it as a destination for a multi-day Bahamas trip rather than a day run. These bank and channel spots are in Bahamian waters — clear in at West End if you plan to fish them.

The open Stream between Florida and the bank, from 80°W to about 79.3°W, is running hard to the north with uniform 82-84°F water and very little color or temperature structure to it — pass through it rather than fish it.

Weather: NO-GO Tuesday — east wind to 19 knots, gusts to 28, and steep 3 to 4 foot chop on a 4-second period, with only a brief afternoon lull. Wednesday and Thursday are both CAUTION on low model confidence, with 11-15 knot northeast to east-northeast wind and 1.6 to 2.4 foot chop. Even so, there are no spots worth the run this week: the small slice of offshore water in this area is uniformly 81-82°F and the cleanest water on the chart (chlorophyll around 0.1 mg/m³), with no temperature breaks, color changes or current convergences to anchor a bite. Pelagic fish will be scattered. If you are already that far out on one of the fallback days, troll rigged ballyhoo through the deep blue for mahi and wahoo, and consider a daytime swordfish deep-drop with longfin squid in the 1,000 to 1,800 ft range — swordfish are at their fall peak. Otherwise, put your fuel into the Little Bahama Bank edges in the midshore zone where the structure actually is.