Lemon Bay & Charlotte Harbor
Lemon Bay Cam
Live harbor view over Lemon Bay from Chadwick Cove in Englewood.
Harbor Cam · Chadwick Cove · Englewood
Right now at Stump Pass · Englewood Beach
- Air temp
- 71°F
- Wind
- N 7 mph
- Sky
- clear
- Next tide
- High 11:39 PM
Today runs 68–83°F with a 0% chance of rain. Sunset is at 5:42 PM.
Conditions from Open-Meteo and NOAA, refreshed through the day. The camera itself is a live feed from its operator.
Which fish look best today at Stump Pass · Englewood Beach
The same day scores differently for each fish: water temperature, wind, tide and seas count differently for a snook than for a sheepshead. Today’s read for Stump Pass, species by species.
Best bet: Snook.
- Snook82Prime
79°F water is right in the snook range.
Wind: 8 mph N, gusts 18
Better Tue: 90
Where to look
Mangrove edges, bridges and passes. They want moving water.
Best snook spots today →Best tides for snook → - Spotted seatrout81Prime
79°F water is a little warm for trout; the bite starts to ease.
Wind: 8 mph N, gusts 18
Better Tue: 89
Where to look
Grass flats and pothole edges; deeper holes and canals when it's cold.
Best trout spots today →Winter trout and the cold-front bite → - Redfish80Prime
79°F water is right in the redfish range.
Wind: 8 mph N, gusts 18
Better Tue: 90
Where to look
Oyster bars, grass flats and mangrove shorelines; they push shallow on a rising tide.
Best redfish spots today → - Tarpon73Good
79°F water is right in the tarpon range.
Wind: 8 mph N, gusts 18
Better Wed: 90
Where to look
Passes, channels and beaches. They travel with the tide.
Best tarpon spots today →When tarpon season runs → - Spanish mackerel73Good
79°F water is right in the Spanish mackerel range.
Wind: 8 mph N, gusts 18
Better Wed: 93
Where to look
Open runs along beaches and passes, on clean, moving water.
Best Spanish mackerel spots today → - Sheepshead69Good
79°F water is warm for sheepshead. Fish early, late and where current moves.
Wind: 8 mph N, gusts 18
Where to look
Pilings, docks, oyster bars and rock — anything that grows barnacles.
Best sheepshead spots today →
Scores conditions for each fish, not where they are or when a run starts. Water temperature is today’s reading applied to the whole week, so a cold front further out won’t show here until the water follows. Temperature ranges are rules of thumb for Florida inshore water; the snook range is from published research.
About Lemon Bay
Lemon Bay is the long, shallow, grass-bottomed lagoon running behind Manasota Key from Venice down to Stump Pass. It is protected water — rarely more than a few feet deep — which makes it fishable on days when the Gulf is unworkable, and it holds snook, redfish and trout along the mangrove edges and dock lines year round. Chadwick Cove looks out over the bay itself rather than the beach, so this is the view that tells you whether the inside is worth a run.
What this camera is good for
- Whether the bay is slick calm or wind-blown
- Boat traffic on the ICW
- Water clarity on the inside
- A read on the wind without the Gulf's exposure
Full conditions for Stump Pass · Englewood Beach
Common questions
- Is the Lemon Bay camera live?
- Yes, it is a live stream running 24 hours a day. If it looks dark, it is night at the camera.
- Does it cost anything to watch?
- No. Salty Forecast is completely free — no ads, no account, no paid tier, and nothing on this page is behind a sign-up.
- What are the tides at Stump Pass · Englewood Beach today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Stump Pass · Englewood Beach are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Englewood, Lemon Bay. Tide state changes what the beach looks like on camera — at low water the beach is at its widest.
- Why does the camera look hazy or dark?
- Live cameras sit outdoors: rain on the lens, salt spray, fog and low light all affect the picture. Night views are lit only by whatever is nearby. If the feed is down entirely, that is the operator's camera rather than this page — the conditions above still update.