Snook
Centropomus undecimalis
Thermal window
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: verify DNER bag and season. Do not apply an FWC closure map to this island.
Puerto Rico · La Parguera / southwest
Snook are in the mix — flood the mangrove cays — snook first, a tarpon in the darker mouths.
Southwest mangrove cays and the drop to the Caribbean. Snook and tarpon in the trees, reef and blue water a short run south. NOAA 9759110 Magueyes Island is the clock. Not San Juan. DNER and any reserve markers are the law.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-01-29. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
- ⚠ Puerto Rico is DNER water, not FWC. Marine reserves (including Mosquito Bay) are not a freelance wade. Verify before you keep a fish.
- Tide · modeled — NOAA 9759110 quiet
- NDBC 42085 quiet
- Sargassum check failed — not all-clear
- Water temp quiet
Tide + moon
low confidence
Forecast brief for Thursday, January 29. Back to this morning
Morning line
Parguera 6.9 on Thursday, January 29 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. YOLO day is Wednesday, August 26. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · -0.32 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
NWS
No wind reading
Buoy
NDBC 42085
Quiet
South of Ponce 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
84% lit
Waxing gibbous
mid range · 84%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 0.7 ft
incoming
-0.32 ft modeled
Coast
No live coast layer
Sargassum check failed. Not a GPS pin. Not all-clear.
Clock
NOAA 9759110
- LowThu 7:00 AM · -0.38
- HighThu 1:00 PM · 0.37
- LowThu 7:00 PM · -0.36
- HighFri 1:00 AM · 0.34
- LowFri 8:00 AM · -0.33
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Monthly YOLO day
Wednesday, August 26
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waxing gibbous · spring · tide range ~0.7 ft · wind to 15 mph · 50% chance of rain
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 6.7
Magueyes Island
structure piling · public structure · mid
NOAA 9759110 lives here. University water. The clock, not a honey hole.
- — structure piling on a incoming tide is a classic match.
skiffspinstructure - 6.3
Parguera mangrove cays
mangrove edge · public structure · mid
Southwest trees. Snook and a baby tarpon. The village is the door. Reserve markers are the law.
- — mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
skiffkayakspinfly
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.
Incoming water
9.4Thu 8:00 AM → Thu 3:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Last light · outgoing
9.4Thu 2:00 PM → Thu 9:00 PM
Last light on outgoing water.
Last light · incoming
7.4Thu 9:00 PM → Fri 3:00 AM
Last light on incoming water.
First light · outgoing
7.4Fri 3:00 AM → Fri 9:00 AM
First light on outgoing water.
Incoming water
9.4Fri 9:00 AM → Fri 3:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Launch and beach access
Cited village and harbor launches. DNER rules. Reserves are marked.
La Parguera village
DNER
Southwest mangrove door. Magueyes 9759110 is the clock.
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 incoming (modeled — NOAA 9759110 Magueyes Island did not answer).
- — Waxing gibbous moon — mid tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
4.8
Tarpon
Megalops atlanticus
Thermal window
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release unless DNER says otherwise the morning you keep one.
Hogfish
Lachnolaimus maximus
Thermal window
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: verify DNER. Reef, not Condado Lagoon.
Mangrove / gray snapper
Lutjanus griseus
Thermal window
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: verify DNER.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Incidental. Ciguatera. Not a Condado headline.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Incidental. Not why you booked Condado.
Regs citedDNER Puerto Rico · current DNER recreational rules · rolls in 7 days. This is DNER water, not FWC. Do not paste a Jupiter snook closure onto Condado.