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Mayport Cam
Live surf camera at the Poles, Hanna Park near Mayport.
The Poles · Hanna Park · Mayport
Right now at Mayport
- Air temp
- 62°F
- Wind
- NNW 4 mph
- Sky
- clear
- Next tide
- Low 12:57 AM tomorrow
Today runs 60–77°F with a 0% chance of rain. Sunset is at 5:33 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 Mayport
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 Mayport, species by species.
Best bet: Spotted seatrout.
- Spotted seatrout88Prime
73°F water is right in the trout range.
Tide: 5.2 ft range · 2 in daylight
Where to look
Grass flats and pothole edges; deeper holes and canals when it's cold.
Best trout spots today → - Redfish86Prime
73°F water is right in the redfish range.
Tide: 5.2 ft range · 2 in daylight
Better Tue: 92
Where to look
Oyster bars, grass flats and mangrove shorelines; they push shallow on a rising tide.
Best redfish spots today → - Sheepshead83Prime
73°F water is a little warm for sheepshead; the bite starts to ease. Still warming, which pushes it further past the range.
Tide: 5.2 ft range · 2 in daylight
Better Tue: 89
Where to look
Pilings, docks, oyster bars and rock — anything that grows barnacles.
Best sheepshead spots today → - Spanish mackerel80Prime
73°F water is right in the Spanish mackerel range.
Wind: 4 mph N, gusts 20
Better Wed: 93
Where to look
Open runs along beaches and passes, on clean, moving water.
Best Spanish mackerel spots today → - Tarpon74Good
73°F water is cool for tarpon; the bite builds as it warms toward 76°F. Warming water is lifting it toward the sweet spot.
Tide: 5.2 ft range · 2 in daylight
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.
About The Poles
The Poles is the beach at the north end of Hanna Park, named for the pilings marking the boundary of the naval station, and it is the most consistent surf break in the Jacksonville area — the jetties at the mouth of the St. Johns just north bend swell onto it in a way the straight beaches to the south never get. Mayport itself guards the river mouth, where an enormous volume of water funnels between two long rock jetties and makes for the best bull redfish and sheepshead fishing on the First Coast.
What this camera is good for
- Surf size and shape before paddling out
- Whether the jetty current has the river mouth churned up
- Wind direction on the beach versus the forecast
- Crowd on the sandbar at low tide
This is a surf-report host rather than a direct feed, and its uptime is less reliable than the county and resort cams elsewhere on this coast.
Full conditions for Mayport
Common questions
- Is the The Poles camera live?
- Yes — it streams on the operator's own site, and the link on this page always opens whichever stream is currently running.
- 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 Mayport today?
- Today's high and low tide times for Mayport are on the tide chart page, drawn from the NOAA station at Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock). 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.