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Mexico · East Cape / Los Barriles

Roosterfish should be the day — the same wash — rooster faces the tide.

Baja California Sur. Roosterfish in the surf and on the beaches. Dorado and tuna on Gordo Banks when the water is right. Pacific and Cortez, not the Gulf of Mexico. Do not invent a rooster on Laguna Madre.

  • ⚠ This brief is for 2026-06-18, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
  • ⚠ Mexico requires a CONAPESCA license. Sian Ka’an, Contoy, and Espíritu Santo are park or biosphere water — verify before you fish.
8.0OF 10

Forecast

low confidence

Forecast brief for Thursday, June 18. Back to this morning

Morning line

East Cape 8.0 on Thursday, June 18. 7 mph SSE. Mostly clear. YOLO day is Wednesday, August 26. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

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-1.8-0.90.00.91.8HLHLHLHLThu 5 AMFri 5 AMSat 5 AMSun 5 AM
outgoing · -0.47 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.

Wind

OPEN-METEO

NESW7MPH

From SSE · gust 8

Sky

OPEN-METEO

Clouds

Mostly clear

A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.

Moon

12% lit

Waxing crescent

mid range · 12%

Water

No gauge

Water

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48°92°

Today’s range 2.0 ft

outgoing

-0.47 ft modeled

Clock

Modeled M2

  • HighThu 4:00 AM · 0.91
  • LowThu 10:00 AM · -0.95
  • HighThu 4:00 PM · 0.98
  • LowThu 10:00 PM · -0.99
  • HighFri 5:00 AM · 1.05

Mexico tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing. There is no NOAA gauge here.

Monthly YOLO day

Wednesday, August 26 · 9.1

Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast — and it is a copper day. waxing gibbous · spring · tide range ~1.5 ft · wind to 8 mph · Clouds · 14%

Stay or drive · East Cape vs La PazOpen the calendarMorning dispatch

Next two weeks

Pulling the 14-day strip…

Where

This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.

  • East Cape beaches

    sand dropoff · public structure · mid

    7.1

    Rooster in the wash. Live mullet or a big baitfish fly. Pacific surf, not a Texas jetty.

    • — sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • — In-play: Roosterfish.
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When

When is moving water in a good hour — not the day. Today’s ring mixes the best mark, the lead fish, and the best window, then taxes the sky. A strong incoming can sit under a weak day if the wind or the fish is off. Calendar cells are a third recipe: range, moon, and the day’s forecast.

  • Outgoing water

    9.9

    Thu 8:00 AM → Thu 12:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Incoming water

    9.6

    Thu 11:00 AM → Thu 6:00 PM

    Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.

  • Outgoing water

    9.6

    Thu 5:00 PM → Fri 12:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Incoming water

    8.6

    Fri 12:00 AM → Fri 7:00 AM

    Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.

  • Outgoing water

    9.9

    Fri 6:00 AM → Fri 1:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

Launch and beach access

Lodge towns and cited marinas. CONAPESCA license. Biosphere and park water is not a freelance wade.

  • Los Barriles launches

    CONAPESCA / BCS

    East Cape door. Surf rooster and the run to Gordo.

    Official source

Legal water

No-take and closed water cited to the agency that owns it. Only the Keys box is FKNMS.

No FKNMS polygon in this box. Mainland Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mexico, and the Bahamas are not Keys sanctuary closures.

Why — and who

  • — Tide is outgoing (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
  • — Mostly clear. Sky is workable.
  • — Wind 7 mph SSE. Castable. Sight-fishing is on if the sun is out.
  • — Waxing crescent moon — mid tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.

Roosterfish

Nematistius pectoralis

8.4

Thermal window

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68°92°

Pacific / Sea of Cortez. Baja, not the Gulf. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

Mexico: verify CONAPESCA. East Cape and La Paz programs are typically catch-and-release.

Mahi-mahi

Coryphaena hippurus

3.5

Thermal window

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66°92°

Bluewater. Weedlines, humps, and the edge — not this flat or marsh. Switch method to Offshore. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

Florida: typically 10/person, 60/vessel, 20 in fork. Texas: 3/day in federal waters under HMS/coastal rules — verify NOAA HMS and TPWD. Mexico: verify CONAPESCA. Bahamas: check current bag.

Tuna (blackfin / yellowfin)

Thunnus atlanticus / Thunnus albacares

3.5

Thermal window

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66°92°

Bluewater. Weedlines, humps, and the edge — not this flat or marsh. Switch method to Offshore. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

Federal HMS rules. Yellowfin typically 27 in curved fork. Blackfin often more liberal — verify NOAA HMS and FWC/TPWD the morning you leave the inlet.

Jack crevalle

Caranx hippos

5.8

Thermal window

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64°94°

Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

Incidental. Not why you booked Ascension or East Cape.

Great barracuda

Sphyraena barracuda

5.8

Thermal window

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66°92°

Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

Incidental. Ciguatera is a real reason not to keep a big one.

Regs citedCONAPESCA recreational license · current CONAPESCA rules · rolls in 7 days. Sian Ka’an, Contoy, and Espíritu Santo are park or biosphere water. Roosterfish is Baja, not the Gulf.