Sunset Beach Pier
NOAA gauge 8659897 · near Sunset Beach, NC
Fishability
- Seas 1.6 ft
This scores whether it is workable out there, not whether anything will bite. Nobody can forecast that, and the apps that claim to are guessing.
Buoy SSBN7 · 2 miles away
- Water
- 86°F
- Air
- —
- Wind
- —
- Seas
- 1.6 ft
Today’s tides
- High02:243.6 ft
- Low08:380.8 ft
- High15:114.6 ft
- Low21:381.2 ft
Predictions relative to mean lower low water, in local time. Actual water level varies with wind and pressure, sometimes by a foot or more.
Reading this honestly
The buoy is 2 miles from this gauge, which is stated for a reason: sea state at a buoy offshore can be nothing like conditions in a sheltered channel, and a water temperature reading a river mouth away may be several degrees out.
The fishability score is about wind, seas and warnings — whether a small boat can work comfortably and safely. It is not a bite forecast, and the tide times below are not one either. Tide stage matters to a great many species and every angler has a theory about which stage; we are not going to convert those theories into a number and present it as data.