On This Water

Louisiana · Grand Isle / Barataria

Speckled trout are the hunt — the surf and the park pier still fish; the bay wants current.

Louisiana’s inhabited barrier island. Caminada and Barataria, the state-park surf and pier, trout and reds in the bays. NOAA 8761724 sits on the island. Do not fish it like Venice — this is a bay-and-beach desk, not the birdfoot.

  • This brief is for 2025-12-10. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
  • Tide · modeled — NOAA 8761724 quiet
  • NDBC GISL1 quiet
  • Salinity probe quiet or stale
  • No river gauge on this desk
  • Red-tide check failed — not all-clear
  • Sargassum check failed — not all-clear
  • Water temp quiet
7.3OF 10

Tide + moon

low confidence

Forecast brief for Wednesday, December 10. Back to this morning

Morning line

Grand Isle 7.3 on Wednesday, December 10 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. YOLO day is Tuesday, August 25. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

Mail it
-1.1-0.50.00.51.1HLHLHLHLWed 6 AMThu 6 AMFri 6 AMSat 6 AM
high slack · 0.66 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.

Wind

NWS

NESWMPH

No wind reading

Buoy

NDBC GISL1

Quiet

Grand Isle did not report. Witness only — not the tide clock.

Sky

NWS

Sky not in

Sky not in

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

Moon

72% lit

Waning gibbous

mid range · 72%

Water

No gauge

Water

48°92°

Today’s range 1.5 ft

high slack

0.66 ft modeled

Coast

No live coast layer

Red-tide check failed. That is not all-clear — open the agency page before you wade.

Sargassum check failed. Not a GPS pin. Not all-clear.

Salinity / color
Barataria Pass at Grand Isle is quiet or stale. Not a color reading.

River

No gauge

No gauge

No USGS discharge gauge on this desk. Wind and the table still tell the color story.

Wind vs table

No live gauge

No live gauge this hour — the printed tide is the forecast.

Clock

NOAA 8761724

  • HighWed 7:00 AM · 0.68
  • LowWed 2:00 PM · -0.69
  • HighWed 8:00 PM · 0.72
  • LowThu 2:00 AM · -0.74
  • HighThu 8:00 AM · 0.75

Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.

Monthly YOLO day

Tuesday, August 25

Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waxing gibbous · mid · tide range ~1.3 ft · wind to 5 mph · Thunderstorms · 58%

Next two weeks

Pulling the 14-day strip…

Where

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

  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping -

    sand dropoff · saved map · mid

    7.2

    Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - pair w/ GI SP. · camp-surf · GULF ATLAS! - FISH

    • sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
    • In-play: Speckled trout, Redfish, Black drum.
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  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow

    mangrove edge · saved map · skinny

    7.2

    Bayou Lafourche marsh; launch at Leeville marinas. · flats · GULF ATLAS! - FISH

    • mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
    • In-play: Speckled trout, Redfish, Black drum.
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  • Caminada Pass

    pass jetty · public structure · deep

    6.6

    West end of the island. Current, trout, and a fall flounder sit. Not Venice.

    • pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
    • In-play: Speckled trout, Redfish.
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  • Grand Isle State Park

    sand dropoff · public structure · mid

    6.6

    State park surf and pier. NOAA 8761724 is on this island. Campground rules apply.

    • sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
    • In-play: Speckled trout, Redfish.
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  • Barataria bayside

    marsh drain · public structure · mid

    6.4

    Island backside. Trout and reds on moving water. Birds are GPS.

    • marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
    • In-play: Speckled trout, Redfish.
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When

When is moving water in a good hour — not the day. First light and last light are named when the clock is the story. 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

    9.4

    Wed 9:00 AMWed 3:00 PM

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

  • Last light · incoming

    9.4

    Wed 3:00 PMWed 10:00 PM

    Last light on incoming water.

  • Last light · outgoing

    7.4

    Wed 9:00 PMThu 4:00 AM

    Last light on outgoing water.

  • First light · incoming

    7.4

    Thu 3:00 AMThu 10:00 AM

    First light on incoming water.

  • Outgoing water

    9.4

    Thu 9:00 AMThu 4:00 PM

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

Launch and beach access

Cited to LDWF ramp lists and Louisiana State Parks. Parish rules shift after a blow.

  • Grand Isle State Park

    Louisiana State Parks

    Campground, pier, surf. NOAA 8761724 is on this island.

    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 high slack (modeled — NOAA 8761724 Grand Isle did not answer).
  • Waning gibbous moon — mid tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
  • USGS salinity well Barataria Pass at Grand Isle is quiet or stale — not all-clear, not a color reading.
  • No USGS discharge gauge on this desk. Wind and the tide table still tell the color story.

Black drum

Pogonias cromis

8.4

Thermal window

46°88°

In peak season for this water. This tide stage (high slack) matches how they hunt.

Louisiana: check LDWF coastal finfish before you keep a drum.

Redfish

Sciaenops ocellatus

5.5

Thermal window

48°92°

Present, not peak.

Louisiana: 4/day, 18–27 in slot. None over 27. No harvest in federal waters. Charter captain/crew bag is zero. Verify LDWF.

Speckled trout

Cynoscion nebulosus

5.5

Thermal window

44°90°

Present, not peak.

Louisiana: 15/day, 13–20 in slot, no more than two over 20. Charter captain/crew bag is zero. Verify LDWF.

Jack crevalle

Caranx hippos

3.7

Thermal window

64°94°

Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Off-season here.

Generally unregulated. Still, do not leave a pile.

Regs citedLDWF recreational saltwater · current LDWF coastal finfish · rolls in 7 days. Louisiana flounder is typically closed Oct 15–Nov 30. Verify LDWF the week you keep one.