Couverture de Puerto Rico Fishing Report: Tarpon and Snapper Heating Up This Week

Puerto Rico Fishing Report: Tarpon and Snapper Heating Up This Week

Puerto Rico Fishing Report: Tarpon and Snapper Heating Up This Week

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This is Artificial Lure with your Puerto Rico fishing report. Around the island today we’ve got a classic Caribbean mix: light trades in the morning, 10–15 knots out of the east, building a bit by afternoon with a moderate chop on the Caribbean side and a bit more lump on the Atlantic. Skies starting partly cloudy with some passing showers, heat and humidity cranking up by late morning. Sunrise is right around 5:50 a.m., sunset about 7:05 p.m., giving you a long, bright window but the *best* bite is riding the cooler edges of the day. Tides around San Juan and most of the north and east coast are running an early morning incoming into mid‑day, then falling through the afternoon. That pushing water before high tide has been the magic window in the back bays and mangrove cuts. Evening outgoing is lining up nicely with sunset for the inshore guys throwing artificials. Inshore, the bite has been solid. Local skiff captains out of San Juan Bay and Loíza report steady **snook**, **tarpon**, and some chunky **jack crevalle** staging on the edges of current and structure. Night and first-light dock lights are still giving up schoolie tarpon with a few fish in the 40–60 lb class mixed in. Freeline live sardinas or small pinfish, and for artificials think soft swimbaits in pearl or silver/black, 3–5 inches, and small suspending twitchbaits in natural pilchard patterns. The guys throwing topwater at gray light are getting explosive eats on walk‑the‑dog plugs. On the reefs around Fajardo, Vieques, and Culebra, nearshore boats are reporting a mixed bag of **yellowtail snapper**, **mutton snapper**, **cerro mackerel**, and plenty of **barracuda** harassing baits. Anchoring on the edge in 60–120 feet, heavy chumming with cut ballyhoo or sardines, and dropping small chunks or whole baits on light leaders is putting fillets in coolers. Vertical jigs in the 60–120 gram range, pink and chartreuse, are getting nailed on the drop by mackerel and ‘cudas. Offshore, when the blue water pushes in tight, captains running out of San Juan and Fajardo have been picking at **mahi**, **wahoo**, and a few **billfish** on the edges and temperature breaks. The better boats are trolling medium ballyhoo with sea witches in blue/white and pink/white, plus a couple of small lures way back for spooky mahi. Early in the week some crews reported multiple mahi per trip with a bonus wahoo when the clouds kept it a little darker. For bait, you can’t beat fresh ballyhoo, live goggle‑eyes, sardinas, and threadfin herring when you can net them at first light around the marinas and bridges. If you’re running all artificials, pack: - 3–5 inch paddletails in white, pearl, and natural green backs - Medium diving plugs in sardine or mullet colors - A handful of bucktail jigs, 1/2 to 2 oz, tipped with strip bait Two hot spots to keep on your radar today: 1. **San Juan Bay and the Canal San Antonio bridges** – Great for tarpon, snook, and jacks on the moving tide. Work the shadows with soft plastics and small hard baits, or drift live baits along the pilings. 2. **Reef edges off Fajardo toward Palomino and the drops toward Vieques** – Anchor and chum for snapper and mackerel, or slow-troll small lures along the color change for mahi when that blue water is in close. That’s the word from the water. Thanks for tuning in and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
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