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The Saturday Letter · Vol. 1 · No. 32

Week of the water

August 3 – August 9, 2026 · August fundamentals · Puerto Rico · 1 of 1 desk · frozen Saturday issue

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This week on your coast

San Juan

8.3

Tarpon should be the day — Condado and the bay — urban tarpon, then the north drop if you switched to Offshore.

Same heat. Parguera trees at first light. The north drop if a storm missed you.

This edition is Puerto Rico only — Puerto Rico. Coasts you did not elect stay off this letter. Scores are 1–10. They are not bite guarantees. Read this month’s seasonal fundamentals.

Puerto Rico

That Saturday

Puerto Rico desk

San Juan

Urban tarpon, then the drop

8.3OF 10

Today

high

Tarpon should be the day — Condado and the bay — urban tarpon, then the north drop if you switched to Offshore.

Same heat. Parguera trees at first light. The north drop if a storm missed you.

Water.
6 mph ESE · 30% rain · 86°F water
Tide.
incoming · +0.4 ft vs the table
Moon.
Waxing gibbous · mid
Window.
Incoming water — Moving water in the right part of the day.
8.4Mangrove / gray snapper8.2Tarpon6.6Snook

— Tide is incoming from NOAA.

— The gauge is +0.41 ft off the predicted table — read the water, not just the printout.

Open the San Juan brief

Box score · August

In peak this month

  • Hogfish

    Puerto Rico

    Keys and Caribbean patch reefs. Not a Texas bay fish. Not a bonefish headline. He lives on the hard bottom, not the grass.

  • Yellowtail snapper

    Puerto Rico

    Islamorada to Key West, then the Bahamas and the Spanish Virgins. Patch reefs and the first drop. Absent from Texas bays.

  • Mangrove / gray snapper

    Puerto Rico

    The snapper that will live in a Texas jetty and a Keys creek. Schoolies on structure. Bigger fish on the wrecks. Not a yellowtail.

  • Lane snapper

    Puerto Rico

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

Noise, not the headline: Jack crevalle, Great barracuda.

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.