On This Water

Puerto Rico · San Juan / Condado

Tarpon should be the day — Condado and the bay — urban tarpon, then the north drop if you switched to Offshore.

Urban tarpon. Condado Lagoon and San Juan Bay. Snook in the mangrove edges. The north coast drops to blue water in a hurry — sail and mahi are an offshore method, not this lagoon. NOAA 9755371 La Puntilla is the clock. DNER rules, not FWC.

  • This brief is for 2026-03-07. 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 7. Back to this morning

Morning line

San Juan 8.0 on Saturday, March 7 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. YOLO day is Thursday, August 27. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

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incoming · 0.40 ft · drag or hover for the clockNOAA tide gauge 9755371 · San Juan, La Puntilla · ft MLLW · not a weather buoy

Wind

NWS

NESWMPH

No wind reading

Sky

NWS

Sky not in

Sky not in

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

Moon

86% lit

Waning gibbous

mid range · 86%

Water

No gauge

Water

48°92°

Today’s range 1.4 ft

incoming

0.40 ft MLLW

Clock

NOAA 9755371

  • LowSat 6:06 AM · 0.21
  • HighSat 11:22 AM · 0.86
  • LowSat 5:32 PM · -0.06
  • HighSun 12:26 AM · 1.32
  • LowSun 6:59 AM · 0.31

Monthly YOLO day

Thursday, August 27 · 8.8

Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. full · spring · tide range ~1.4 ft · wind to 17 mph · Rain · 40%

Next two weeks

Pulling the 14-day strip…

Where

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

  • San Juan Bay

    pass jetty · public structure · deep

    8.1

    The harbor. NOAA 9755371 sits on this water. Current, traffic, a tarpon that has seen a boat.

    • pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
    • In-play: Tarpon, Snook.
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  • Condado Lagoon

    channel gut · public structure · mid

    7.5

    Urban tarpon water under the bridges. Not a bonefish flat. DNER rules.

    • channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
    • In-play: Tarpon, Snook.
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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 AMSat 1:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Outgoing water

    9.1

    Sat 1:00 PMSat 7:00 PM

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

  • Incoming water

    9.1

    Sat 7:00 PMSun 2:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Outgoing water

    9.4

    Sun 2:00 AMSun 9:00 AM

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

  • Incoming water

    9.4

    Sun 8:00 AMSun 2:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

Launch and beach access

Cited village and harbor launches. DNER rules. Reserves are marked.

  • Condado / San Juan launches

    DNER / Municipio de San Juan

    Urban door into the lagoon and the bay. NOAA 9755371 is on this harbor.

    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 from NOAA 9755371 San Juan, La Puntilla.
  • Waning gibbous moon — mid tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.

Snook

Centropomus undecimalis

6.6

Thermal window

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

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.

Mangrove / gray snapper

Lutjanus griseus

6.6

Thermal window

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

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

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.