Publishing a fishing forecast
Moments · A tide station: the next tides, the buoy, the marine forecast, and the page's read of the conditions. Your call on the day, the best window, and why.
Conditions
Best window
Your note
What opens
Pick a station on the fishing page and follow "Publish your forecast". The form opens with the station's day: the next high and low tides from NOAA CO-OPS, the nearest buoy's wind and seas, the marine forecast, and the page's own read of the conditions on its five-step scale, from stay in to good conditions.
This is about conditions for being on the water - wind, seas, the tide - not whether anything bites. Same rule as the page.
What you add, in order
The day - today, tomorrow or the weekend.
Conditions - stay in, rough, marginal, workable or good conditions. The page's scale, so your call and its read sit on the same line.
Best window - optional. "Dawn through the flood, 6 to 9 AM."
Your note - the wind against the tide, the inlet, when to be back through.
When it locks
At 4 AM on the day you called, local time. Edit until then.
The mark
Against the page's read for that day: agrees, stronger (a more favourable read), softer, differs.
Where it appears
On the station's page beside the page's read; on your page; in your followers' email. The share image is the station on the coast with the day's tide curve.