Tarpon
Megalops atlanticus
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release unless DNER says otherwise the morning you keep one.
Puerto Rico · Vieques / Culebra
Bonefish should be the day — the same banks as they empty; the harbor holds the tarpon.
The Spanish Virgin Islands. More flat than San Juan — bones and permit on the east-island banks, tarpon in the harbors. Culebra is the next cay north; do not invent a secret number between them. NOAA 9752621 Isabel Segunda. Mosquito Bay is a reserve, not a freelance wade.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-05-02, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
- ⚠ 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 9752621 quiet
- NDBC 41056 quiet
- Sargassum check failed — not all-clear
- Water temp quiet
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Saturday, May 2. Back to this morning
Morning line
Vieques 7.2 on Saturday, May 2. 12 mph E. Partly cloudy. YOLO day is Monday, August 31. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
outgoing · 0.01 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From E · gust 19
Buoy
NDBC 41056
Quiet
Vieques did not report. Witness only — not the tide clock.
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clouds
Partly cloudy
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
100% lit
Full
spring range · 100%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 0.6 ft
outgoing
0.01 ft modeled
Coast
No live coast layer
Sargassum check failed. Not a GPS pin. Not all-clear.
Clock
NOAA 9752621
- HighSat 5:00 AM · 0.29
- LowSat 11:00 AM · -0.28
- HighSat 6:00 PM · 0.28
- LowSun 12:00 AM · -0.30
- HighSun 6:00 AM · 0.30
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Monthly YOLO day
Monday, August 31
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waning gibbous · mid · tide range ~0.9 ft · wind to 12 mph · Rain · 30%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 7.4
Isabel Segunda harbor
channel gut · public structure · mid
North-side town harbor. NOAA 9752621. Tarpon in the remaining water.
- — channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Tarpon.
skiffspinkayak - 6.7
Esperanza banks
hard flat · public structure · skinny
South-side banks off the village. Named water. Not Mosquito Bay — that reserve is not a freelance wade.
- — hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
skiffwadeflyspin - 6.7
Culebra banks
hard flat · public structure · skinny
The next cay north. Same east-island fishery. Do not invent a number between the two.
- — hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
skiffflyspin
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
9.1Sat 8:00 AM → Sat 1:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Last light · incoming
8.8Sat 1:00 PM → Sat 7:00 PM
Last light on incoming water.
Last light · outgoing
8.8Sat 7:00 PM → Sun 1:00 AM
Last light on outgoing water.
First light · incoming
9.1Sun 1:00 AM → Sun 8:00 AM
First light on incoming water.
Outgoing water
9.1Sun 8:00 AM → Sun 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.
Esperanza / Vieques
DNER
South-side village. Mosquito Bay is a reserve — not this ramp’s job.
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 — NOAA 9752621 Isabel Segunda, Vieques did not answer).
- — Partly cloudy. Clouds steal the window on bones and permit.
- — Wind 12 mph E. Work the leeward shore. Fly gets harder.
- — Full moon — spring tide range. Sight water often prefers a moderate range and clean water over a huge spring.
8.4
Bonefish
Albula vulpes
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release. East-island banks, not Condado Lagoon.
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release. Verify DNER.
Hogfish
Lachnolaimus maximus
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: verify DNER. Reef, not Condado Lagoon.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
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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 Condado.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
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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. Not a Condado headline.
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.