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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.

Seychelles

Seychelles — GT country

Indian Ocean atolls. Modeled tide. Lodge water on the outer rims.

Alphonse and St François are the photograph — giant trevally on the edge, bones and Indo-Pacific permit on the sand. Farquhar is the southern atoll, same fish, farther. Mahé is the public door: reef, park water, blue water, not the St François flat. There is no NOAA gauge. Tide is a labeled model. SFA license. Roosterfish does not live here. Atlantic jack crevalle does not either. You came for a GT.

August. Still the windy half. Plan Mahé or wait for October.

Type

Marsh & drains

Marsh wants moving water. Flood the grass, drain the creek. On the Texas coast the wind often moves more water than the printed tide — observed minus predicted is the real story. Sabine and Galveston dump after a blow. Flamingo is the Florida version: reds and snook in the backcountry, not on the oceanside. If the table says incoming and the marsh is emptying, believe the marsh.

August · peak

What is actually on

No primary species is marked peak for this filter. Present fish still show in the list below.

Peak Present Off

Closures

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

Nothing lines up.

That filter combination is empty — wrong coast for the fish, or the fish is not present in August. Clear the filters.

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