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Puerto Rico · La Parguera / southwest

Snook should be the day — 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 2027-03-13. 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.
8.0OF 10

Tide + moon

low confidence

Forecast brief for Saturday, March 13. Back to this morning

Morning line

Parguera 8.0 on Saturday, March 13 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. YOLO day is Wednesday, August 26. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

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incoming · 0.28 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.

Wind

NWS

NESW—MPH

No wind reading

Sky

NWS

Sky not in

Sky not in

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

Moon

30% lit

Waxing crescent

neap range · 30%

Water

No gauge

Water

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48°92°

Today’s range 0.9 ft

incoming

0.28 ft modeled

Clock

NOAA 9759110

  • LowSat 3:00 AM · -0.39
  • HighSat 10:00 AM · 0.40
  • LowSat 4:00 PM · -0.41
  • HighSat 10:00 PM · 0.42
  • LowSun 4:00 AM · -0.43

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

Monthly YOLO day

Wednesday, August 26 · 8.6

Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waxing gibbous · spring · tide range ~0.5 ft · wind to 15 mph · 50% chance of rain

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Next two weeks

Pulling the 14-day strip…

Where

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

  • Magueyes Island

    structure piling · public structure · mid

    8.1

    NOAA 9759110 lives here. University water. The clock, not a honey hole.

    • — structure piling on a incoming tide is a classic match.
    • — In-play: Snook, Tarpon.
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  • Parguera mangrove cays

    mangrove edge · public structure · mid

    7.7

    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.
    • — In-play: Snook, Tarpon.
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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.

  • Incoming water

    9.4

    Sat 8:00 AM → Sat 11:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Outgoing water

    8.0

    Sat 11:00 AM → Sat 5:00 PM

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

  • Incoming water

    9.1

    Sat 5:00 PM → Sun 12:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Outgoing water

    8.0

    Sat 11:00 PM → Sun 6:00 AM

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

  • Incoming water

    9.4

    Sun 5:00 AM → Sun 12:00 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 crescent moon — neap tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.

Snook

Centropomus undecimalis

6.6

Thermal window

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56°92°

Present, not peak. 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.

Tarpon

Megalops atlanticus

6.6

Thermal window

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68°94°

Present, not peak. 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

6.6

Thermal window

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66°90°

Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.

Puerto Rico: verify DNER. Reef, not Condado Lagoon.

Mangrove / gray snapper

Lutjanus griseus

6.6

Thermal window

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64°92°

Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.

Puerto Rico: verify DNER.

Great barracuda

Sphyraena barracuda

5.8

Thermal window

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66°92°

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

4.8

Thermal window

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64°94°

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.