Skull Creek, north entrance, Hilton Head Island
NOAA gauge 8668918 · near Hilton Head Island, SC
Fishability
- Wind 11 mph
- No wave height reported nearby
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 41033 · 19 miles away
- Water
- 86°F
- Air
- 84°F
- Wind
- 11 mph
- Seas
- —
Today’s tides
- High03:225.7 ft
- Low09:481.6 ft
- High16:046.4 ft
- Low22:301.9 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 19 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.