Doctrine · not a honey-hole list

Seasonal fundamentals

When a coast, a type of water, and a fish actually line up. If you elected Texas on the list, this page opens on Texas — Seychelles stays off the board until you ask for it. Filter by region, method or habitat, and species. The year bar is peak versus present. Limits cite TPWD and FWC — verify before you keep one.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico — urban tarpon, east-island flats

DNER water. Real NOAA gauges. Not a Keys copy and not FWC.

San Juan is Condado Lagoon and the bay — tarpon under the bridges, snook in the edges, a north-coast drop that is an offshore method. Vieques and Culebra are the Spanish Virgins: more sand, bones and permit, Mosquito Bay a reserve. La Parguera is the southwest mangrove desk, clocked to Magueyes 9759110. Blue marlin live in the story of this island; this brief will not invent a billfish on a lagoon. License is DNER. Do not paste a Jupiter snook closure onto Condado.

June. Heat is the clock. Condado at dawn. The drop is a boat-and-ice problem.

June · peak

What is actually on

Tarpon

Bonefish

Permit

Hogfish

Yellowtail snapper

Mangrove / gray snapper

Mutton snapper

Lane snapper

Black grouper

Peak Present Off

Closures

No coast-wide harvest closure on the board. Still verify before you keep a fish.

Lane snapper

Lutjanus synagris

Peak JunePuerto Rico

Thermal window

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68–86°F · best 72–82°F

Nearshore Gulf and Caribbean hard bottom. Texas jetties and the first reefs. Not the federal red-snapper story.

Fly. 7 wt. Small shrimp on the nearshore hard. He is a schoolie.

Spin. Light jig or shrimp on the first structure. Measure — he is the small snapper people guess wrong.

Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico: verify DNER.

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