Fishing conditions

260 NOAA tide gauges in 25 states · Each page draws today's tide and reads the nearest buoy for wind, seas and water

Every gauge with a page, on the coast it stands on. 17 more in Alaska and Hawaii are in the list. Pick a state below to see them named.

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 each page rates is whether it is workable out there: 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, drawn - and where a buoy is not reporting wind or waves, the page says so instead of guessing.

Sources: 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. Coastline from Natural Earth.

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Why there is no bite score here