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Bahía de la Ascensión

Type
Saltwater flats, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Live gauges
None listed
Listed by
2 authoritative lists
Guides
None listed
Shops
None listed

Today on Bahía de la Ascensión

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Why there is no reading

No provider we read publishes a machine-readable feed on this water. We show no number rather than a guessed one.

Regulations & lists Guides & shops

Representative photograph of similar water; not a photograph of this place.
Representative photograph, not this water. Photo: National Park Service, Everglades National Park, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
More about Bahía de la Ascensión

Bahía de la Ascensión is a saltwater flats fishery in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Mexico's agriculture and fisheries secretariat, in the Diario Oficial de la Federación, sets fishing refuges in it where sport fishing is catch-and-release only (agreement of 12 December 2022). Mexico's National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) names it in its management programme for the Sian Ka'an Complex. This page covers the bay inside the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, fished from Punta Allen on its northern shore.

Where to fish

About this

Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish. Most waters here need a rod licence or permit and often a beat booking or club ticket; the listing pages under Regulations say which.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Restrooms near Bahía de la Ascensión

Restrooms near Bahía de la Ascensión

Restrooms within 2 miles of Bahía de la Ascensión 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.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

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.

More water near Bahía de la Ascensión (6)

Sources Overture Maps places (guide map points)

Where the map point comes from

Position: the Centre of the Niche Habin fishing-refuge polygon (mean of its four published vertices) published by Diario Oficial de la Federación (Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural).

We hold no access map for Quintana Roo yet.

The map shows shops and guides nearby that publish a street address on their own website. Everyone else is in the lists below.

Regulations and official lists

About this

Each line is an official list that names this water. Those pages are the authority on seasons, licences, limits and closures for each beat or reach; read them before you go.

Guides and shops near Bahía de la Ascensión

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Listings are unclaimed: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

No guide within 60 km yet.

All Quintana Roo guides

Shops nearby

No shop nearby yet.

All Quintana Roo shops

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Shops whose website names this water first, then fly shops within 100 km when the shop's website gives its location.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species

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The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.

Estos ecosistemas corresponden a las bahías (Espíritu Santo y Ascensión) y las áreas de humedales costeros, incluyendo todas sus lagunetas y canales. … También depende de la conservación de estos sistemas la presencia de especies de peces de interés para la pesca deportiva, que son cuatro principalmente: macabí (Albula vulpes), robalo (Centropomus undecimalis), palometa (Trachinotus falcatus) y sábalo (Megalops atlanticus). Our translation: These ecosystems are the bays (Espíritu Santo and Ascensión) and the coastal wetlands, including all their small lagoons and channels. … The presence of the fish species of interest for sport fishing also depends on the conservation of these systems; there are mainly four: bonefish (Albula vulpes), snook (Centropomus undecimalis), permit (Trachinotus falcatus) and tarpon (Megalops atlanticus).

Listed as: macabí, robalo, palometa, sábalo.

Listed by the agency

  • Bonefish
  • Snook
  • Permit
  • Tarpon

Fish these in the US

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Matched on the fish the agencies list for both waters first, then the same water type, an official designation or flagship listing on both, and a similar mapped size where USGS hydrography covers both.

At most two waters per country. A shared fish is a listing, not a promise: presence varies by reach and season.

Like the Bahía de la Ascensión? Same fish, US waters.

  • A fly angler, face covered by a sun mask, casting while wading a flat, seen from the waterlineAgency-named saltwater fishing water
    Photo credit

    Fly fishing on a flat in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Florida Keys flats

    Florida

    Same fish: bonefish & permit · also saltwater flats

  • Calm, glassy water of Biscayne Bay reflecting a cloudy skyAgency-named saltwater fishing water
    Photo credit

    Biscayne Bay in Biscayne National Park, Florida. Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Biscayne Bay

    Florida

    Same fish: bonefish & tarpon · also saltwater flats

  • Calm Sabine Lake seen from a wooden pier at Pleasure IslandAgency-named saltwater fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Mobile Bay
    Photo credit

    Sabine Lake at Pleasure Island, Port Arthur, Texas. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Mobile Bay.

    Mobile Bay

    Alabama

    Same fish: tarpon · also saltwater flats

  • Grey, choppy Corpus Christi Bay breaking on a narrow shore under storm cloudsAgency-named saltwater fishing waterRepresentative photo · not South Bay
    Photo credit

    Southern Corpus Christi Bay as Tropical Storm Beta neared the Texas coast. Photo: Supportstorm, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not South Bay.

    South Bay

    Texas

    Same fish: snook · also saltwater flats

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.

Saltwater flats

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

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Videos for this water (2)

Watch: flats fishing basics

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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

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Fish Tales

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Bahía de la Ascensión.

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Sources for this page

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

Live readings come from the named provider when the page is shown, under the licence shown on each card. Designations, species and the flagship note link to the agency or body that publishes them; this page copies only the list wording and the species names. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the Centre of the Niche Habin fishing-refuge polygon (mean of its four published vertices) published by Diario Oficial de la Federación (Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural). Water type is our own classification.