Fishing conditions
Tide times, water temperature, wind and seas, straight from NOAA gauges and buoys — plus whether the Weather Service currently has anything active over the water.
By state
260 tide gauges across 25 states.
Why there is no bite score here
Every fishing app gives you a number out of a hundred, blending tide stage, moon phase, barometric pressure and water temperature into a single prediction of how well the fish will be feeding.
The evidence that any of that predicts catches is thin. Solunar theory — the idea that moon position drives feeding — is traditional rather than demonstrated, and the studies that have looked for the effect have mostly not found it. Wrapping a number around folklore does not make it less folklore, it just makes it harder to argue with.
So what is scored here is fishability: whether conditions are safe and workable. Wind, seas and active marine warnings genuinely do determine that, and it is the question worth answering before you tow a boat somewhere. Tide times are published as what they are — the tide times — and where a buoy is not reporting wind or waves, the page says so instead of guessing.
Where the numbers come from
Tide predictions are NOAA CO-OPS, taken only from reference stations — real instruments in the water rather than an offset applied to a gauge somewhere else. Water temperature, wind, seas and pressure are the nearest reporting NDBC buoy, with its distance stated so you can judge how much it tells you about where you are actually standing.