Loxahatchee River

Type
Saltwater flats, Florida (South)
Designation
Agency-named saltwater fishing water
USGS gauges
2 live
Guides
5 nearby
Shops
7 nearby

Today on the Loxahatchee River

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

The Loxahatchee River is a saltwater flats in Florida, listed as Agency-named saltwater fishing water by Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection.

More about the Loxahatchee River

2 USGS gauges on the water report flow. 5 guides and 7 shops nearby are listed here.

Updated · Sources: Florida Aquatic Preserves with fishing among their recreational activities (DEP Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection), USGS Water Data

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Where it is

Loxahatchee River is a saltwater flats in Florida.

Flow now at 2 gauges
Reading the gauges…

Follow Loxahatchee River for flow alerts

Pick one of its USGS gauges and hear from us when the flow moves into or out of its usual range for the date, or crosses a flow you set. We check the public USGS reading every 2 hours and email only when it crosses, at most once every 6 hours. Flow alone is not a fishing forecast or a safety call.

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Where to fish

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Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

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Loxahatchee River on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Loxahatchee River: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

Map of Loxahatchee River with 2 USGS gauges, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.

Restrooms near Loxahatchee River

Restrooms near Loxahatchee River

Restrooms within 2 miles of Loxahatchee River in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

Map of 6 restrooms near Loxahatchee River

Skip the map; every place is in the list below

Map of 6 restrooms near Loxahatchee River, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.

  1. Restroom

    0.4 mi away in a straight line
    • Wheelchair accessible (mapped)

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · open to everyone? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  2. Restroom

    0.8 mi away in a straight line
    • Public (mapped)

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  3. Restroom

    0.9 mi away in a straight line

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  4. Restroom

    1.1 mi away in a straight line

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  5. Restroom

    1.1 mi away in a straight line

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

  6. Restroom

    1.2 mi away in a straight line

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

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Sources Florida public boat ramp finderOverture Maps places (guide map points)

Where the map point comes from

Position: the USGS gauge LOXAHATCHEE RIVER AT MILE 9.1 NEAR JUPITER, FL.

The map shows USGS gauges (tap one for its flow reading), and shops and guides within 40 miles that publish a street address on their own website. Everyone else is in the lists below.

Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Agency-named saltwater fishing water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under saltwater.

Guides and shops near Loxahatchee River

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Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

7 shops nearby

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

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What 5 nearby guide websites mention: what guides advertise, not a survey or a promise of what you will catch.

Named on 5 nearby guide websites

  • Tarpon4
  • Trout3
  • Tuna3
  • Crappie2
  • Largemouth bass2
  • Striped bass2
  • Bonefish1
  • Catfish1
How we put this together

Named by guides nearby (within 40 miles), counted from the species each guide lists on its own site. No agency page we hold lists species for this water.

Plan a trip here

About this

None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.

No hub within 40 miles

Gear checklist

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A saltwater flats fly-fishing checklist: a 9 ft 8 weight rod, sealed-drag reel, tropical line, fluorocarbon leaders and shrimp/crab flies, plus sun protection and flats booties, with estimated prices and where to buy.

Hands hold a bonefish just above the shallow water of a sand flat before releasing it

Saltwater flats

9′ rod, 8 weight, sealed-drag reel, tropical floating line · Bonefish, redfish, permit and other flats species

Open the checklist
Videos for this water (2)

Watch: flats fishing basics

About this

Sight casting, the strip set and sun on the water.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • FLY FISHING FOR REDFISH BASICS 101 INTRODUCTION FOR BEGINNERSEmbedded from YouTube · Huge Fly Fisherman · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • How To Set Up For A Bonefish TripEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on saltwater flats

Fish Tales

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Loxahatchee River.

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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All 12 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown; tides from NOAA CO-OPS. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the USGS gauge LOXAHATCHEE RIVER AT MILE 9.1 NEAR JUPITER, FL. Water type is our own classification.