See today’s read on your water
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Start with the fish you’re after
Tap a species to load it into your read: each one’s tuned to its own temperature band, depth and structure.
These seven are the ones the chart grades. Twenty more Southern California fish have a written profile, from white seabass to swordfish.
Now pick your home harbor
Tap your harbor on the chart, your read is built for the water you can actually reach from there.
Nine home ports, and the banks between them: 9 Mile · Cortes · Tanner · Catalina · the Coronados.
Six things, weighted by species
Not a forecast and not a guess. A report card on the water you can reach today, built from the same six readings a captain would check before burning the fuel.
Recent activity
How the fishing's been going lately in water you can reach: one signal of six, a nudge on the score, never the whole story.
Water temp & breaks
Ocean temperature against each species' comfort zone, plus the sharp temperature edges pelagics stack on.
Structure & depth
The seafloor a species lives on: banks, canyon edges, and the depth band it holds in.
Kelp & bait
Standing kelp, paddies and bait marks, where calico and yellowtail set up.
Sea conditions
Swell and wind at every cell, scored as the water and never as your boat. One ocean, one score, the same for every hull.
Tide & current
The day's tidal exchange and the current running over the piece: how much water is moving, and whether that suits the fish you are after.
Three answers, and what each one means
The best water out there for this fish, the kind the whole fleet knows about. We hold this word back on purpose, so it means something when it shows up.
Good water with the species around: the right conditions, reports nearby, structure worth running to. A grind-it-out, earn-your-fish kind of day.
Bad water, or water this species simply wouldn't be in. Often the smart money is to save the fuel and the alarm.