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Puerto Rico · Vieques / Culebra

Bonefish should be the day — look, do not grind a high-slack school into the reserve.

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 2026-12-21, 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.
6.2OF 10

Forecast

low confidence

Forecast brief for Monday, December 21. Back to this morning

Morning line

Vieques 6.2 on Monday, December 21. 14 mph E. Mostly clear. YOLO day is Monday, August 31. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

Mail it
-0.6-0.30.00.30.6LHLHLHLHMon 8 AMTue 8 AMWed 8 AMThu 8 AM
high slack · -0.44 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.

Wind

OPEN-METEO

NESW14MPH

From E · gust 19

Sky

OPEN-METEO

Clouds

Mostly clear

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

Moon

92% lit

Waxing gibbous

mid range · 92%

Water

No gauge

Water

—

48°92°

Today’s range 0.9 ft

high slack

-0.44 ft modeled

Clock

NOAA 9752621

  • LowMon 8:00 AM · -0.44
  • HighMon 2:00 PM · 0.43
  • LowMon 8:00 PM · -0.41
  • HighTue 2:00 AM · 0.39
  • LowTue 9:00 AM · -0.36

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 · 30%

Stay or drive · Vieques vs PargueraOpen the calendarMorning dispatch

Next two weeks

Pulling the 14-day strip…

Where

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

  • Esperanza banks

    hard flat · public structure · skinny

    5.5

    South-side banks off the village. Named water. Not Mosquito Bay — that reserve is not a freelance wade.

    • — hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
    • — In-play: Bonefish.
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  • Culebra banks

    hard flat · public structure · skinny

    5.5

    The next cay north. Same east-island fishery. Do not invent a number between the two.

    • — hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
    • — In-play: Bonefish.
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  • Isabel Segunda harbor

    channel gut · public structure · mid

    5.0

    North-side town harbor. NOAA 9752621. Tarpon in the remaining water.

    • — channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
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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

    9.1

    Mon 9:00 AM → Mon 4:00 PM

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

  • Outgoing water

    9.1

    Mon 3:00 PM → Mon 10:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Incoming water

    7.2

    Mon 9:00 PM → Tue 4:00 AM

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

  • Outgoing water

    7.2

    Tue 4:00 AM → Tue 10:00 AM

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

  • Incoming water

    9.1

    Tue 10:00 AM → Tue 4:00 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.

  • 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 high slack (modeled — NOAA 9752621 Isabel Segunda, Vieques did not answer).
  • — Mostly clear. Clouds steal the window on bones and permit.
  • — Wind 14 mph E. Work the leeward shore. Fly gets harder.
  • — Waxing gibbous moon — mid tide range. Sight water often prefers a moderate range and clean water over a huge spring.

Bonefish

Albula vulpes

7.3

Thermal window

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64°92°

In peak season for this water.

Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release. East-island banks, not Condado Lagoon.

Tarpon

Megalops atlanticus

3.7

Thermal window

—

68°94°

Off-season here.

Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release unless DNER says otherwise the morning you keep one.

Permit

Trachinotus falcatus

3.7

Thermal window

—

66°92°

Off-season here.

Puerto Rico: treat as catch-and-release. Verify DNER.

Hogfish

Lachnolaimus maximus

3.7

Thermal window

—

66°90°

Off-season here.

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

Great barracuda

Sphyraena barracuda

5.5

Thermal window

—

66°92°

Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Present, not peak.

Incidental. Ciguatera. Not a Condado headline.

Jack crevalle

Caranx hippos

3.7

Thermal window

—

64°94°

Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Off-season here.

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.