Indian River Lagoon

With an average depth of four and a half feet the IRL is a shallow water angler’s haven. It holds four of Florida’s most popular inshore gamefish year-round: Snook, Spotted Seatrout, Red Drum, and the mighty Tarpon. Mangrove shorelines, seagrass beds, sand and oyster bars, spoil islands, and the Atlantic Intra-coastal Waterway are found the length of the lagoon; while Fort Pierce itself is home to an Atlantic inlet, a 25foot deep ‘turning basin’, and Harbor Branch Marine Institute.