Hogfish
Lachnolaimus maximus
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: verify DNER. Reef, not Condado Lagoon.
Puerto Rico · Vieques / Culebra
Permit should be the day — the Esperanza and Culebra banks — bones and permit, not a San Juan tarpon sentence.
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 2026-08-31, 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.
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Monday, August 31. Back to this morning
Morning line
Vieques 6.4 on Monday, August 31. 10 mph E. Rain · 20%. YOLO day is Monday, August 31. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · 0.43 ftModeled M2 · not a gauge
Wind
NWS
From E
Sky
20% rain
Rain
Rain · 20%
Sight water goes blind. A marsh still fishes a shower.
Moon
87% lit
Waning gibbous
mid range · 87%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 0.9 ft
incoming
0.43 ft modeled
Clock
NOAA 9752621
- HighMon 8:00 AM · 0.43
- LowMon 2:00 PM · -0.44
- HighMon 9:00 PM · 0.45
- LowTue 3:00 AM · -0.48
- HighTue 9:00 AM · 0.50
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Monthly YOLO day
Monday, August 31 · 9.7
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waning gibbous · mid · tide range ~0.9 ft · wind to 12 mph · Rain · 20%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
- 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 incoming tide is a classic match.
- — Rain blinds skinny water. Sight dies before the fish do.
- — In-play: 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 incoming tide is a classic match.
- — Rain blinds skinny water. Sight dies before the fish do.
- — In-play: Permit.
skiffflyspin - 6.3
Isabel Segunda harbor
channel gut · public structure · mid
North-side town harbor. NOAA 9752621. Tarpon in the remaining water.
- — channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Tarpon.
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When
Incoming water
8.8Mon 8:00 AM → Mon 10:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
8.8Mon 9:00 AM → Mon 4:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.7Mon 4:00 PM → Mon 10:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.7Mon 10:00 PM → Tue 4:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
9.7Tue 4:00 AM → Tue 11:00 AM
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.
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 incoming (modeled — the NOAA gauge did not answer).
- — Rain · 20%. Sight water goes blind. Wait it out or switch to stained marsh.
- — Wind 10 mph E. Castable. Sight-fishing is on if the sun is out.
- — Waning gibbous moon — mid tide range. Sight water often prefers a moderate range and clean water over a huge spring.
8.4
Tarpon
Megalops atlanticus
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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.
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
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Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release. Verify DNER.
Bonefish
Albula vulpes
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release. East-island banks, 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 (incoming) 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 (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Incidental. Ciguatera. Not a Condado headline.
Regs citedDNER Puerto Rico · current DNER recreational rules · rolls in 8 days. This is DNER water, not FWC. Do not paste a Jupiter snook closure onto Condado.