{
  "feed": "locations",
  "site": "https://www.tidesandtails.net",
  "description": "All fisheries covered by Tides & Tails, Texas to Maryland plus California salt and freshwater.",
  "docs": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/llms.txt",
  "index": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/feed/index.json",
  "license": "Free to read and cite with attribution to Tides & Tails (tidesandtails.net).",
  "generated": "2026-09-11T05:50:35.168Z",
  "count": 38,
  "items": [
    {
      "slug": "lower-laguna-madre",
      "name": "Lower Laguna Madre",
      "state": "TX",
      "region": "Texas",
      "lat": 26.3,
      "lon": -97.32,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8779770",
        "name": "Port Isabel, TX",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "South Padre Island",
        "Port Isabel",
        "Port Mansfield",
        "Laguna Vista",
        "Arroyo City"
      ],
      "intro": "A hypersaline, gin-clear grass lagoon where sight-fishing is the default, not the treat. Trophy trout prowl knee-deep sand, redfish tail in herds, and the snook fishery around South Padre is Texas’ best-kept non-secret.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "snook",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "snook",
          "tarpon",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "snook"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Mangrove snapper (jetties and channels)",
        "Ladyfish"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter means big-trout wading over mud and grass near Port Mansfield — slow suspending baits for the fish of a lifetime. Spring scatters reds and trout across the flats as the water cleans up. Summer is prime sight-fishing: tailing reds at dawn, snook at the jetties and passes, tarpon rolling off the beach. Fall stacks flounder in the channels and pulls big strings of reds down the ICW ahead of the fronts.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/lower-laguna-madre",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "corpus-christi",
      "name": "Corpus Christi & Baffin Bay",
      "state": "TX",
      "region": "Texas",
      "lat": 27.45,
      "lon": -97.3,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8775870",
        "name": "Bob Hall Pier, Corpus Christi, TX",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Corpus Christi",
        "Flour Bluff",
        "North Padre Island",
        "Riviera",
        "Loyola Beach"
      ],
      "intro": "Corpus Christi Bay, the Upper Laguna Madre and legendary Baffin Bay form Texas’ trophy-trout triangle. Serpulid rock formations found nowhere else on the coast, seagrass to the horizon, and a genuine shot at a 30-inch speck.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter is Baffin’s big-trout season — wade slow, throw Corky-style suspending baits, expect few bites but the right ones. Spring spreads fish across the Upper Laguna grass flats. Summer means dawn topwater on the rocks, sight-fished reds on the sand and bait balls at Packery Channel. Fall drops the crowds and turns on redfish schools and the flounder push through the causeway.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/corpus-christi",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "rockport-port-aransas",
      "name": "Rockport & Port Aransas",
      "state": "TX",
      "region": "Texas",
      "lat": 28.05,
      "lon": -96.99,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8774770",
        "name": "Rockport, TX",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Rockport",
        "Fulton",
        "Port Aransas",
        "Aransas Pass",
        "Ingleside"
      ],
      "intro": "Rockport and Port Aransas sit on a web of clear, grassy bays — Aransas, Copano, Redfish, St. Charles — with a working pass to the Gulf. Classic Texas skinny-water fishing with a fishing-village soul, and whooping cranes over the flats in winter.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "tarpon",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Tripletail (channel markers, summer)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter sight-fishing over dark mud flats is quietly world-class — reds sunning themselves on warm afternoons. Spring turns on the back bays as glass minnows flood in. Summer is topwater at dawn, tripletail on the markers and jetty fishing all day. Fall brings bull reds through the pass, flounder in the guts and the year’s best trout numbers under birds.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/rockport-port-aransas",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "matagorda-bays",
      "name": "Matagorda Bays",
      "state": "TX",
      "region": "Texas",
      "lat": 28.55,
      "lon": -96.3,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8773701",
        "name": "Port O’Connor, Matagorda Bay, TX",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Port O’Connor",
        "Palacios",
        "Matagorda",
        "Port Lavaca",
        "Seadrift"
      ],
      "intro": "East and West Matagorda Bays are big, moody and unbothered — mid-coast Texas water where oyster reefs, guts and a surf that goes green in summer keep the drift-and-wade crowd honest. Port O’Connor and Palacios are the jumping-off points.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "tarpon",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Tripletail (channel markers and crab-trap floats)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter wading over mud and scattered shell near Oyster Lake produces heavyweight trout. Spring is a drifting game over the reefs between fronts. Summer means 4 a.m. launches, green-surf mornings and tripletail runs down the channel. Fall floods the marsh drains with reds and sends flounder through the Diversion Channel — the mid-coast’s best month is October.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/matagorda-bays",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "galveston",
      "name": "Galveston Bay",
      "state": "TX",
      "region": "Texas",
      "lat": 29.31,
      "lon": -94.7933,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8771450",
        "name": "Galveston Pier 21, TX",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Galveston",
        "Texas City",
        "San Leon",
        "Kemah",
        "Bolivar Peninsula"
      ],
      "intro": "Texas’ biggest estuary and one of America’s great trout-and-redfish factories: shell reefs, wells, marsh lakes, jetties and a wade-fishing culture all its own.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter wade-fishing over mud-and-shell produces the year’s biggest trout. Spring is the black drum run and scattered trout as fronts fade. Summer moves fish to deep shell, wells and the jetties. Fall is the marquee: bull red run at the jetties in October and the November flounder run out of every bayou.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/galveston",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "sabine-lake",
      "name": "Sabine Lake",
      "state": "TX",
      "region": "Texas",
      "lat": 29.95,
      "lon": -93.83,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8770570",
        "name": "Sabine Pass North, TX",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Port Arthur",
        "Sabine Pass",
        "Bridge City",
        "Orange",
        "Pleasure Island"
      ],
      "intro": "Straddling the Texas–Louisiana line, Sabine Lake is a river-fed estuary with Calcasieu-grade trout genetics and a fraction of the pressure. Marsh drains on the east side, reefs to the south, and a ship channel full of fish.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter concentrates trout in the Sabine and Neches river channels — slow-roll swimbaits along the edges. Spring wakes the marsh as shrimp flush out on every falling tide. Summer is birds, drifts and jetty trips when the Gulf lays down. Fall is Sabine’s trophy window: big trout under the birds, bull reds at the Causeway and a flounder run at the pass that draws a crowd for a reason.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/sabine-lake",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "calcasieu-lake",
      "name": "Calcasieu Lake",
      "state": "LA",
      "region": "Louisiana–Mississippi–Alabama",
      "lat": 29.85,
      "lon": -93.32,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8768094",
        "name": "Calcasieu Pass, LA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Lake Charles",
        "Sulphur",
        "Hackberry",
        "Cameron",
        "Grand Lake"
      ],
      "intro": "“Big Lake” is a pilgrimage fishery: a compact, salty Louisiana estuary that grows speckled trout with shoulders. Reefs, weirs and beach-like shorelines make it fish twice its size.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter is quality over quantity — slow suspending baits over the reefs for the biggest trout of the year. Spring is prime: pre-spawn heavyweights, slicks popping on calm mornings and reds on every shoreline. Summer moves the fish deeper and earlier, with the Cameron jetties a reliable fallback. Fall turns the weirs and bayou drains into redfish highways and stacks flounder at the channel edge.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/calcasieu-lake",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "louisiana-marsh",
      "name": "The Louisiana Marsh (Venice to Grand Isle)",
      "state": "LA",
      "region": "Louisiana–Mississippi–Alabama",
      "lat": 29.55,
      "lon": -89.6,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8761305",
        "name": "Shell Beach, LA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Venice",
        "Delacroix",
        "Hopedale",
        "Shell Beach",
        "Lafitte",
        "Grand Isle"
      ],
      "intro": "The Mississippi River delta marsh — Venice, Delacroix, Hopedale, Lafitte, Grand Isle — is the densest redfish habitat on Earth. Ponds, bayous and broken grass in every direction, trout on the outside edges, tarpon off the river mouth.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "black-drum",
          "flounder",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "tarpon",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter drops the river and clears the marsh — the best sight-fishing of the year for reds stacked in the ponds, with trout deep in the bayous. Spring scatters fish as the river rises. Summer means trout at the barrier islands and rigs, reds in the marsh at dawn and tarpon off the passes. Fall is the everything season: bull reds at the mouths, limits of trout on the edges and ducks trading overhead while you fish.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/louisiana-marsh",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "mississippi-sound",
      "name": "Mississippi Sound",
      "state": "MS",
      "region": "Louisiana–Mississippi–Alabama",
      "lat": 30.25,
      "lon": -88.95,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8747437",
        "name": "Bay Waveland Yacht Club, MS",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Bay St. Louis",
        "Pass Christian",
        "Gulfport",
        "Biloxi",
        "Ocean Springs",
        "Pascagoula"
      ],
      "intro": "The Mississippi Sound is a barrier-island buffet: marsh rivers and bayous inside, grass-ringed islands — Cat, Ship, Horn — a short run out. Trout and reds split the year, and nobody’s ever far from a pier, a bridge or a jetty.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Tripletail (channel markers and crab-trap floats — a Sound specialty)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter pulls trout up the rivers — the Jourdan and Wolf hold fish through the fronts. Spring spreads them back across the bays and reefs. Summer is island season: trout at first light on the grass, reds in the surf, tripletail runs at midday. Fall turns on the white-shrimp flush — birds, limits and bull reds around the barrier-island passes.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/mississippi-sound",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "mobile-bay",
      "name": "Mobile Bay & the Alabama Coast",
      "state": "AL",
      "region": "Louisiana–Mississippi–Alabama",
      "lat": 30.48,
      "lon": -87.98,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8735180",
        "name": "Dauphin Island, AL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Dauphin Island",
        "Fairhope",
        "Daphne",
        "Gulf Shores",
        "Orange Beach",
        "Fort Morgan"
      ],
      "intro": "Mobile Bay funnels a huge river delta into the Gulf between Dauphin Island and Fort Morgan, with Gulf Shores and Orange Beach hanging off its eastern shoulder. Gas rigs in the bay, grass in the delta, and the world-famous summer “jubilees” on the Eastern Shore.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "White trout (nighttime pier staple)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter pushes trout up into the delta rivers where the kayak crowd finds them stacked. Spring lights up the rigs and the causeway. Summer is beach season — Spanish and pompano in the surf, tarpon off Fort Morgan, jubilee mornings on the Eastern Shore. Fall runs bull reds over Dixey Bar in serious numbers while flounder funnel out of the delta.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/mobile-bay",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "pensacola-bay",
      "name": "Pensacola Bay",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 30.35,
      "lon": -87.15,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8729840",
        "name": "Pensacola, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Pensacola",
        "Gulf Breeze",
        "Pensacola Beach",
        "Milton",
        "Navarre"
      ],
      "intro": "Pensacola Bay is deep, green and grand — a natural harbor with grass flats up the lagoons, monster bridge structure and a pass that funnels everything from bull reds to tarpon. Santa Rosa Sound runs east like a fish highway.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "cobia",
          "pompano",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "sheepshead",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter is sheepshead on every piling and trout holed up in the bayous. Spring brings the cobia watch off Pensacola Beach and pompano to the surf. Summer means tarpon on the beach, Spanish blitzes and early-morning trout in the sound. Fall is the bull red show at the pass — big schools pushing bait to the surface within sight of the fort.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/pensacola-bay",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "destin",
      "name": "Destin & the Emerald Coast",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 30.42,
      "lon": -86.45,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8729511",
        "name": "East Pass (Destin), FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Destin",
        "Fort Walton Beach",
        "Okaloosa Island",
        "Niceville",
        "Santa Rosa Beach"
      ],
      "intro": "East Pass pours Choctawhatchee Bay into the clearest green water on the northern Gulf. Destin calls itself the world’s luckiest fishing village — inshore, that means pompano beaches, a serious spring cobia tradition and bay grass full of trout.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "pompano",
          "cobia",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "sheepshead",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter is bridge-and-dock season — sheepshead at the Marler Bridge, trout up the bayous. Spring is Destin’s signature: cobia cruising the beach in gin-clear water and pompano runs on the bars. Summer means dawn trout, jetty reds and tarpon sliding down the beach. Fall stacks flounder in East Pass and brings the bull reds in behind the mullet run.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/destin",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "panama-city",
      "name": "Panama City & St. Andrew Bay",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 30.1523,
      "lon": -85.6669,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8729108",
        "name": "Panama City, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Panama City",
        "Panama City Beach",
        "Lynn Haven",
        "St. Andrews",
        "Mexico Beach"
      ],
      "intro": "Deep, clear St. Andrew Bay meets sugar-sand beaches at one of the Gulf’s most reliable passes. Grass flats, jetty rock, piers and a spring cobia run all inside a 20-minute boat ride.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "cobia",
          "pompano",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "gag-grouper",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "sheepshead",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter is sheepshead time on the bridges and jetties. Spring brings the famous cobia run down the beach plus pompano in the surf. Summer is a dawn-and-dusk trout game with tarpon offshore of the pass. Fall turns everything on: bull reds at the jetties, flounder stacking in the pass, and gags pushing shallow.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/panama-city",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "port-st-joe",
      "name": "Port St. Joe & Cape San Blas",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 29.8119,
      "lon": -85.3027,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8728912",
        "name": "Port St. Joe, St. Joseph Bay, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Port St. Joe",
        "Cape San Blas",
        "Simmons Bayou",
        "Indian Pass"
      ],
      "intro": "St. Joseph Bay is a rare thing: a clear, enclosed, grass-bottom bay with no river input. Sight-fishing for reds, a trout factory, bay scallops in summer — and the cape’s surf out the back door.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "pompano",
          "cobia",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "gag-grouper",
          "snook",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "gag-grouper"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bay scallops (snorkeling, summer season)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter offers the Gulf’s best shot at a giant \"gator\" trout in skinny water — go slow, throw big. Spring pompano run the cape surf while cobia round the point. Summer is grass-flat trout, scallops and northern-edge snook. Fall brings keeper gags shallow and redfish schools on the flats.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/port-st-joe",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "apalachicola",
      "name": "Apalachicola Bay",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 29.7258,
      "lon": -84.9816,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8728690",
        "name": "Apalachicola, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Apalachicola",
        "Eastpoint",
        "St. George Island",
        "Carrabelle"
      ],
      "intro": "River-fed, oyster-studded and famously fertile — “Apalach” is old-Florida inshore fishing: marsh drains, bars, and more redfish water than you can cover in a lifetime.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "tarpon",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "gag-grouper"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter trout stack in the river and deep holes — slow twitchbaits shine. Spring scatters fish across the bars and grass. Summer means tarpon at the passes and a dependable early topwater trout bite. Fall is redfish month: schools flood the bars and marsh mouths ahead of the first fronts.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/apalachicola",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "big-bend",
      "name": "The Big Bend (Steinhatchee to Homosassa)",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 29.1,
      "lon": -83.1,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8727520",
        "name": "Cedar Key, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Steinhatchee",
        "Suwannee",
        "Cedar Key",
        "Yankeetown",
        "Crystal River",
        "Homosassa"
      ],
      "intro": "Florida’s Big Bend is the wildest stretch of Gulf coast left — a hundred miles of seagrass, limestone and spring-fed rivers with barely a condo on it. Steinhatchee, Crystal River and Homosassa anchor a trout-and-redfish paradise hiding in plain sight.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "cobia",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "tarpon",
          "gag-grouper"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "gag-grouper"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bay scallops (Steinhatchee & Homosassa, summer season)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter runs the fish up the spring-fed rivers — trout stack in the Steinhatchee and Crystal River holes where the water holds 72°F. Spring spreads trout and reds across a million acres of grass. Summer is scallop season, shallow gags on the rock piles and the historic Homosassa tarpon flat still producing giants. Fall is prime everything — reds schooled big, trout hungry and almost nobody out there.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/big-bend",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "tampa-bay",
      "name": "Tampa Bay",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 27.72,
      "lon": -82.55,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8726520",
        "name": "St. Petersburg, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "St. Petersburg",
        "Tampa",
        "Tierra Verde",
        "Apollo Beach",
        "Ruskin",
        "Palmetto"
      ],
      "intro": "Tampa Bay is Florida’s biggest open-water estuary and maybe its most complete inshore fishery: snook in the mangroves, trout on the grass, redfish schools on the flats and a tarpon parade past the Skyway every summer.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "snook",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "cobia",
          "sheepshead",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "snook",
          "tarpon",
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "snook",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "sheepshead",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Mangrove snapper (docks and rock piles, summer)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter concentrates snook in rivers and canals (watch the cold snaps) while sheepshead blanket every piling and reds pod up on the negative-low flats. Spring pours whitebait into the bay and everything eats. Summer is tarpon at the Skyway and beaches, snook spawning in the passes and dawn trout. Fall reloads: redfish schools a hundred strong, snook feeding back into the bays and Spanish on every bait ball.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/tampa-bay",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "charlotte-harbor",
      "name": "Charlotte Harbor & Boca Grande",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 26.78,
      "lon": -82.15,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8725577",
        "name": "Port Boca Grande, Charlotte Harbor, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Boca Grande",
        "Placida",
        "Englewood",
        "Punta Gorda",
        "Port Charlotte",
        "Bokeelia"
      ],
      "intro": "Charlotte Harbor is a vast, mangrove-rimmed bowl fed by the Peace and Myakka rivers, emptying through Boca Grande Pass — the tarpon capital of the world. Inside: snook bars, redfish flats and trout grass that goes on for miles.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "snook",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "tarpon",
          "cobia",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "tarpon",
          "snook",
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "snook",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "sheepshead",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Mangrove snapper (docks and oyster bars, summer)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter pulls snook up the canals and rivers, with trout and reds on the negative-low flats — prime poling weather. Spring stages tarpon off the beaches and lights up the pre-spawn snook bite. Summer is Boca Grande: the pass fills with tarpon May through July, snook line the beaches and mornings mean thunderheads by ten. Fall is redfish month — big schools crawling the bars — with snook falling back to the creeks.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/charlotte-harbor",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "ten-thousand-islands",
      "name": "Ten Thousand Islands & the Everglades",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Gulf",
      "lat": 25.85,
      "lon": -81.45,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8724948",
        "name": "Everglades City, Barron River, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Marco Island",
        "Goodland",
        "Everglades City",
        "Chokoloskee",
        "Port of the Islands"
      ],
      "intro": "South of Marco Island the road runs out and the mangroves take over — thousands of islands, rivers and oyster mouths draining the Everglades into the Gulf. It’s the last frontier of Florida inshore fishing: snook, redfish, tarpon and total solitude.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "snook",
          "red-drum",
          "tarpon",
          "speckled-trout",
          "cobia"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "snook",
          "tarpon",
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "snook",
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "tarpon",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "snook",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Goliath grouper (catch-and-release brutes in the rivers)",
        "Mangrove snapper",
        "Jack crevalle"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter sends everything to the backcountry — reds, trout, snook and black drum stack in the dark-bottom bays and rivers, and Chokoloskee shines after fronts. Spring pulls snook and tarpon back toward the outside. Summer is tarpon in the rivers, snook spawning at the passes and afternoon lightning you plan around. Fall might be the best of all: fat snook feeding hard, redfish schools on the outside bars and the dry-season crowds still weeks away.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/ten-thousand-islands",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "florida-keys",
      "name": "The Florida Keys",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Atlantic",
      "lat": 24.8,
      "lon": -81.1,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8724580",
        "name": "Key West, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Key Largo",
        "Islamorada",
        "Marathon",
        "Big Pine Key",
        "Key West"
      ],
      "intro": "A 120-mile arc of islands between the Atlantic and Florida Bay, the Keys are the light-tackle and fly capital of the planet. Tarpon pour up the oceanside in spring, bonefish and permit haunt the flats, and winter brings the whole food chain to the backcountry.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "tarpon",
          "snook",
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "tarpon",
          "snook"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "snook",
          "tarpon",
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "cobia"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bonefish",
        "Permit",
        "Barracuda",
        "Mangrove snapper",
        "Yellowtail snapper"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter turns the Gulf-side backcountry on: Spanish mackerel blitzes, trout over the mud, cobia riding stingrays and sharks thick behind them. Spring is the migration — tarpon strings running the oceanside from Islamorada to Key West. Summer means early tarpon, bonefish on the flood and snapper for dinner. Fall is quiet-season magic: bones and permit with nobody around, and the first fronts firing the backcountry.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/florida-keys",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "biscayne-bay",
      "name": "Biscayne Bay & Miami",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Atlantic",
      "lat": 25.58,
      "lon": -80.23,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8723214",
        "name": "Virginia Key, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Miami",
        "Miami Beach",
        "Key Biscayne",
        "Coconut Grove",
        "Cutler Bay",
        "Homestead"
      ],
      "intro": "A clear, grassy bay squeezed between Miami’s skyline and the reef — bonefish and permit flats in sight of downtown, tarpon in the cuts all winter, and dock-light snook up the residential canals. Urban saltwater fishing without equal.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "tarpon",
          "snook",
          "speckled-trout"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "snook",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "snook",
          "tarpon",
          "speckled-trout"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "tarpon",
          "snook",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "sheepshead"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bonefish",
        "Permit",
        "Jack crevalle",
        "Peacock bass (freshwater canals)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter is the famous night-tarpon window at the cuts on the shrimp runs, plus mackerel and jacks piling into the bay. Spring stages migratory tarpon down the beaches and wakes the bonefish flats. Summer means dawn snook on the beaches and bones early before the heat glasses over. Fall is the mullet run down Miami Beach — snook, tarpon and jacks crashing bait against the groins.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/biscayne-bay",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "indian-river-lagoon",
      "name": "Indian River Lagoon & Mosquito Lagoon",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Atlantic",
      "lat": 27.86,
      "lon": -80.46,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8721604",
        "name": "Trident Pier, Port Canaveral, FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Titusville",
        "Cocoa Beach",
        "Melbourne",
        "Sebastian",
        "Vero Beach",
        "Stuart"
      ],
      "intro": "The Indian River Lagoon system — Mosquito Lagoon, the Banana River, the Indian River proper — runs 150 miles down Florida’s east coast and grows the biggest speckled trout in America. No real tide in the northern basins: it’s all sight-fishing, wind and water clarity.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "snook",
          "black-drum",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "snook",
          "tarpon"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "snook",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter is giant-trout season — calm cold mornings, black-mud flats, fish over ten pounds for those who move slow. Spring spreads reds across the flats in big schools. Summer means dawn topwater, mangrove snook down south near Stuart and tarpon at the inlets. Fall is the mullet run: everything with fins stacks at Sebastian and Fort Pierce inlets, and the lagoon reds feed like it’s their job.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/indian-river-lagoon",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "jacksonville",
      "name": "Jacksonville & the First Coast",
      "state": "FL",
      "region": "Florida Atlantic",
      "lat": 30.4,
      "lon": -81.45,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8720218",
        "name": "Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock), FL",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Jacksonville",
        "Mayport",
        "Amelia Island",
        "Ponte Vedra Beach",
        "St. Augustine"
      ],
      "intro": "Where the St. Johns River meets the Atlantic, spartina marsh runs unbroken from Amelia Island to St. Augustine. Classic Southeast creek fishing — flood-tide reds, docks stacked with sheepshead, and a jetty system that fishes all year.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "tarpon",
          "flounder",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bluefish (fall run)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter drops the water clean and stacks trout and reds deep in the creeks — dead-slow presentations win. Spring wakes the whole marsh and brings spawning sheepshead to the jetties. Summer is flood-tide tailing season with tarpon on the pogies outside. Fall is the run of runs: bull reds at the jetties, a beach full of mullet and the creeks emptying shrimp on every falling tide.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/jacksonville",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "georgia-coast",
      "name": "The Georgia Coast (Savannah to St. Simons)",
      "state": "GA",
      "region": "Southeast Atlantic",
      "lat": 31.6,
      "lon": -81.12,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8670870",
        "name": "Fort Pulaski, GA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Savannah",
        "Tybee Island",
        "Richmond Hill",
        "Darien",
        "Brunswick",
        "St. Simons Island"
      ],
      "intro": "Georgia’s hundred miles of coast hide behind barrier islands — Tybee, Ossabaw, Sapelo, St. Simons — laced with the biggest tides in the Southeast. Eight-foot swings make it a timing game, and the reward is untouched marsh full of reds and trout.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "tarpon",
          "flounder",
          "spanish-mackerel"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Whiting (bottom rigs in the sounds)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter schools reds huge and clear in the shallow creeks — some of the Southeast’s best sight-fishing with nobody watching. Spring brings sheepshead off the reefs into the sounds and wakes the trout bite. Summer is tarpon in the sounds and flood-tide reds in the short spartina. Fall is bull reds at the sandbars, trout limits in the creeks and the marsh turning gold.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/georgia-coast",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "sc-lowcountry",
      "name": "The SC Lowcountry (Charleston to Hilton Head)",
      "state": "SC",
      "region": "Southeast Atlantic",
      "lat": 32.45,
      "lon": -80.4,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8665530",
        "name": "Charleston, SC",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Charleston",
        "Mount Pleasant",
        "Folly Beach",
        "Edisto Island",
        "Beaufort",
        "Hilton Head Island"
      ],
      "intro": "Spartina marsh, pluff mud and shrimp boats: the Lowcountry from Charleston through Beaufort to Hilton Head is flood-tide redfish country, with a bonus cobia run up the Broad River every May. Fishing here is a tide chart with a city attached.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "cobia",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "tarpon",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Winter schools reds by the hundred in gin-clear shallows — pick a school apart slowly and quietly. Spring means the Broad River cobia run and trout waking up on the grass banks. Summer is flood-tide tailing on every big high, with sharks and tarpon behind the trawlers. Fall is the Lowcountry’s finest: bull reds at the inlets, trout on every point and oyster roasts when you’re done.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/sc-lowcountry",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "grand-strand",
      "name": "The Grand Strand (Murrells Inlet & Georgetown)",
      "state": "SC",
      "region": "Southeast Atlantic",
      "lat": 33.42,
      "lon": -79.1,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8661070",
        "name": "Springmaid Pier, Myrtle Beach, SC",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Murrells Inlet",
        "Pawleys Island",
        "Georgetown",
        "North Myrtle Beach",
        "Little River"
      ],
      "intro": "South of Myrtle Beach’s neon, Murrells Inlet and Winyah Bay at Georgetown do the actual fishing: tight tidal creeks, jetty rock and one of the East Coast’s great river-delta estuaries. Reds and trout inside, pompano and Spanish on the beach.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "sheepshead",
          "black-drum",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "sheepshead"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bluefish (jetties and surf)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter pods reds up in the clear creeks behind the inlet — sight-fishing between fronts. Spring turns on sheepshead at the jetties and scatters trout up Winyah Bay’s rivers. Summer means beach pompano, jetty Spanish and creek reds at dawn before the boat traffic. Fall is the payoff — trout limits in the inlet, bull reds at the Georgetown jetties and flounder stacking on the drops before they leave.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/grand-strand",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "cape-fear",
      "name": "Cape Fear (Wilmington & Southport)",
      "state": "NC",
      "region": "Southeast Atlantic",
      "lat": 33.9,
      "lon": -78.02,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8659084",
        "name": "Southport, NC",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Wilmington",
        "Wrightsville Beach",
        "Carolina Beach",
        "Kure Beach",
        "Southport",
        "Oak Island"
      ],
      "intro": "The Cape Fear River pours past Wilmington into a maze of spartina creeks, ICW docks and inlet bars between Wrightsville Beach and Bald Head Island. North Carolina’s southern corner — reds year-round, a proper fall trout run, flounder culture deep in the bones.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "black-drum",
          "sheepshead",
          "flounder"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "pompano"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "sheepshead"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bluefish"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter schools reds on the clear shallow flats — long leaders, slow days, big numbers. Spring brings sheepshead to the docks and the first Spanish up the beach. Summer is flounder on every creek mouth (mind the season), reds in the flooded grass and pompano in the surf. Fall is speck season proper: October fronts fire the trout run through the inlets, with bull reds off the Cape Fear shoals.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/cape-fear",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "pamlico-sound",
      "name": "Pamlico Sound & Outer Banks",
      "state": "NC",
      "region": "Southeast Atlantic",
      "lat": 35.2226,
      "lon": -75.6905,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8654467",
        "name": "USCG Station Hatteras, NC",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Hatteras",
        "Ocracoke",
        "Manteo",
        "Oriental",
        "Engelhard",
        "Swanquarter"
      ],
      "intro": "America’s largest lagoon: shallow, wind-tided and wild. Home of the world-record red drum and genuine gator trout, backed by the Outer Banks surf and inlets.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "black-drum",
          "striped-bass"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "sheepshead",
          "cobia"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "flounder",
          "striped-bass"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "speckled-trout",
          "striped-bass",
          "red-drum"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bluefish",
        "Sea mullet (whiting)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Wind tides rule here — a hard southwest blow can empty a flat regardless of the lunar tide. Spring wakes trout and puppy drum in the creeks. Summer brings cobia to the inlets and old drum to the shoals. Fall is legendary: trophy drum, speck limits, and the flounder bite before closure. Winter trout hole up in the creeks — handle fish gently after cold snaps.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/pamlico-sound",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "chesapeake",
      "name": "Chesapeake Bay (Annapolis & Lower Bay)",
      "state": "MD",
      "region": "Mid-Atlantic",
      "lat": 38.9833,
      "lon": -76.4816,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "8575512",
        "name": "Annapolis, MD",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Annapolis",
        "Kent Island",
        "Deale",
        "Solomons",
        "Crisfield",
        "Cambridge"
      ],
      "intro": "The nation’s largest estuary and the northern edge of Tides & Tails’ coverage. Rockfish (striped bass) headline, but reds, specks, Spanish and sheepshead push farther up the bay every warm year.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "striped-bass",
          "red-drum",
          "black-drum"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "striped-bass",
          "red-drum",
          "speckled-trout",
          "spanish-mackerel",
          "cobia",
          "sheepshead"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "striped-bass",
          "speckled-trout",
          "red-drum"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "striped-bass"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "White perch",
        "Bluefish"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Spring is trophy rockfish season (tight regulations — always verify current MD rules) plus giant black drum in May. Summer spreads Spanish, cobia and bull reds through the lower bay; heat pushes stripers deep — fish dawn. Fall is the classic: birds, blitzes and topwater rock. Winter is largely closed/catch-and-release for stripers — check before you go.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/chesapeake",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "san-diego",
      "name": "San Diego & Mission Bay",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 32.7142,
      "lon": -117.1736,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "9410170",
        "name": "San Diego, San Diego Bay, CA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "San Diego",
        "Point Loma",
        "Coronado",
        "Mission Beach",
        "Chula Vista"
      ],
      "intro": "SoCal’s protected bays are a light-tackle playground: eelgrass flats, channel edges and docks holding spotted bay bass, halibut and cruising corbina — West Coast inshore at its best.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "spotted-bay-bass",
          "california-halibut",
          "white-seabass"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "spotted-bay-bass",
          "california-halibut",
          "california-yellowtail",
          "pacific-bonito"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "spotted-bay-bass",
          "california-yellowtail",
          "pacific-bonito",
          "barred-sand-bass"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "spotted-bay-bass",
          "california-halibut",
          "barred-sand-bass"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "California corbina (surf/sight-fishing, summer)",
        "Shortfin corvina (evening bait schools)",
        "Bonefish (rare but real in south bay)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "The bays fish year-round. Spring wakes the halibut on the flats. Summer is corbina season in the surf and corvina at dusk. Fall keeps bass and halibut steady, and winter means slower retrieves in the channels — but the spotties never really quit.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/san-diego",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "oceanside-carlsbad",
      "name": "Oceanside & Carlsbad",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 33.2,
      "lon": -117.45,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "9410396",
        "name": "Oceanside Harbor, CA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Oceanside Harbor",
        "Carlsbad",
        "South Oceanside"
      ],
      "intro": "North San Diego County's working harbor and its kelp coast. Agua Hedionda Lagoon feeds bait to the beach, the kelp forests off Carlsbad hold calico bass and white seabass, and summer corbina tail in the surf line within sight of the pier.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "white-seabass",
          "california-halibut",
          "calico-bass"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "calico-bass",
          "california-yellowtail",
          "pacific-bonito"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "california-yellowtail",
          "pacific-bonito",
          "calico-bass",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "california-halibut",
          "rockfish"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "California corbina (surf sight-fishing, summer)",
        "Barracuda (fall bait schools)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Spring is the sneaky season: white seabass slide along the kelp on the squid, and halibut stack on the sand outside the harbor mouth. Summer means calico bass in the forest, corbina in the surf and yellowtail when the warm water pushes in. Fall keeps the yellows around and adds bonito and barracuda under the birds. Winter turns back to halibut drifts and rockfish on the deeper structure — seasonal closure applies, so check current CA rules before you drop.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/oceanside-carlsbad",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "newport-dana-point",
      "name": "Newport & Dana Point",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 33.58,
      "lon": -117.85,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "9410580",
        "name": "Newport Beach, Newport Bay Entrance, CA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Newport Beach",
        "Dana Point",
        "Corona del Mar",
        "Laguna Beach"
      ],
      "intro": "Orange County's blue-water doorstep. The shelf drops away fast off Newport and Dana Point, so bluefin, yellowtail and dorado run closer to the harbor mouth here than almost anywhere on the coast — with calico bass and bay fishing waiting when the offshore lies down.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "white-seabass",
          "rockfish",
          "spotted-bay-bass"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "calico-bass",
          "california-yellowtail",
          "spotted-bay-bass"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "california-yellowtail",
          "pacific-bonito",
          "calico-bass"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "california-halibut",
          "spotted-bay-bass"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Bluefin tuna (fall, sometimes shockingly close to shore)",
        "Dorado (summer paddy fish in warm-water years)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Spring belongs to the squid: white seabass ghost the nests at night and rockfish bite on the local banks when the season is open — seasonal closure applies, verify before you go. Summer lights up the kelp with calicos and yellowtail, and warm years float dorado under every paddy. Fall is the headline act — bluefin tuna within sight of the headlands some years, yellowtail until the water cools. Winter turns inward: halibut on the bay flats and spotties on every dock line.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/newport-dana-point",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "la-long-beach",
      "name": "LA & Long Beach Harbors",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 33.72,
      "lon": -118.23,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "9410660",
        "name": "Los Angeles, CA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "San Pedro",
        "Long Beach",
        "Huntington Harbour",
        "Wilmington"
      ],
      "intro": "The biggest harbor complex on the West Coast is also one of its best-kept bass fisheries. Miles of breakwater — 'The Wall' — hold trophy calicos in lake-calm water, spotted bay bass own the inner harbor structure, and yellowtail and bonito crash the outside in fall.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "spotted-bay-bass",
          "barred-sand-bass",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "calico-bass",
          "barred-sand-bass",
          "spotted-bay-bass"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "california-yellowtail",
          "pacific-bonito",
          "calico-bass"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "spotted-bay-bass",
          "california-halibut"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Barracuda (spring–summer bait schools)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Spring wakes the spotted bay bass first, with rockfish outside when the season allows — seasonal closure applies, check the current CA dates. Summer is Wall season: sand bass gang up on structure and the biggest calicos of the year eat swimbaits in flat-calm water. Fall sends yellowtail and bonito down the breakwater chasing bait. Winter goes quiet and technical — spotties on the docks and halibut in the channels for the patient.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/la-long-beach",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "santa-monica-bay",
      "name": "Santa Monica Bay",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 33.96,
      "lon": -118.55,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "9410840",
        "name": "Santa Monica, CA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Marina del Rey",
        "Redondo Beach",
        "Malibu",
        "Santa Monica",
        "Hermosa Beach"
      ],
      "intro": "LA's home water: a broad, sandy crescent from Malibu to the Palos Verdes kelp. The flats make it a premier halibut drift fishery, the summer 'Short Bank' barracuda bite is a local institution, and white seabass haunt the kelp edges for those who put in the time.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "california-halibut",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "calico-bass",
          "white-seabass",
          "pacific-bonito",
          "california-halibut"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "california-yellowtail",
          "white-seabass",
          "pacific-bonito"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "california-halibut",
          "barred-sand-bass"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Barracuda (the Short Bank, summer)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Spring pairs rockfish on the deeper reefs — seasonal closure applies, check current CA rules — with the first good halibut drifts of the year on the flats. Summer is the bay at full song: calicos in the kelp, white seabass for the dawn-patrol crowd, and the Short Bank barracuda bite that fills sportboat decks. Fall brings yellowtail through on the warm water and keeps the seabass honest. Winter slows to halibut and sand bass on the structure — pick your weather windows.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/santa-monica-bay",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "santa-barbara-ventura",
      "name": "Santa Barbara & Ventura",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 34.35,
      "lon": -119.65,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "9411340",
        "name": "Santa Barbara, CA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Santa Barbara Harbor",
        "Ventura Harbor",
        "Channel Islands Harbor (Oxnard)"
      ],
      "intro": "The gateway to the Northern Channel Islands — Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Miguel — where the cold California Current meets SoCal. IGFA-record halibut water, serious rockfish and lingcod grounds, and white seabass on the island squid.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "rockfish",
          "white-seabass",
          "california-halibut"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "calico-bass",
          "california-yellowtail",
          "california-halibut",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "california-yellowtail",
          "white-seabass",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "california-halibut"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Lingcod (hard bottom and pinnacles)",
        "California sheephead (reef and kelp)",
        "Sand dabs (deep sand, the off-season standby)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "The islands set the calendar here. When rockfish season is open — seasonal closure applies, always verify current CA dates — the reefs give up quality reds and lingcod. Spring squid draws white seabass to the island grounds. Summer and fall add yellowtail runs and calico bass in the island kelp, with halibut on the sand flats all the while — this is genuine record-class halibut water. In the off-season, sand dab droppers and sheephead keep the rail busy between weather windows.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/santa-barbara-ventura",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "monterey",
      "name": "Monterey Bay",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 36.605,
      "lon": -121.8884,
      "freshwater": false,
      "tideStation": {
        "id": "9413450",
        "name": "Monterey, CA",
        "source": "NOAA CO-OPS"
      },
      "towns": [
        "Monterey",
        "Moss Landing",
        "Marina",
        "Capitola",
        "Santa Cruz"
      ],
      "intro": "Cold, rich and dramatic: kelp lines, surf breaks and a summer striped bass run that surprises Gulf transplants. The northern anchor of our California coverage.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "california-halibut",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "striped-bass",
          "california-halibut",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "striped-bass",
          "white-seabass",
          "rockfish"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "rockfish"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [
        "Surfperch (barred surfperch, year-round surf staple)",
        "Kelp greenling and lingcod (kelp-edge rock)"
      ],
      "seasonal": "Winter is surfperch season between swells. Spring warms the flats for halibut. Summer is the headline striper run in the surf — dawn patrol with big swimbaits. Fall brings squid runs that can fire the white seabass bite along the kelp. Always watch the swell forecast; this is big-water surf fishing.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/monterey",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "brite-lake",
      "name": "Brite Lake",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 35.1065,
      "lon": -118.5431,
      "freshwater": true,
      "tideStation": null,
      "towns": [
        "Tehachapi",
        "Golden Hills"
      ],
      "intro": "High-desert mountain water at 4,000 feet. Brite Lake is a managed fishery with a surprisingly robust bass population and seasonal trout stockings — a small Tehachapi reservoir that fishes far bigger than its acreage.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "rainbow-trout",
          "largemouth-bass",
          "bluegill"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "largemouth-bass",
          "channel-catfish",
          "bluegill"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "rainbow-trout",
          "largemouth-bass"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "rainbow-trout"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Spring and fall are the peak for trout — stockings land when the water is cool and the fish stay shallow for weeks. Summer bass fishing is best at dawn before the sun gets on the water; catfish take over after dark. Winter is slow but holds the biggest trout of the year for the angler willing to soak bait in the cold.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/brite-lake",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    },
    {
      "slug": "lake-isabella",
      "name": "Lake Isabella",
      "state": "CA",
      "region": "California",
      "lat": 35.6383,
      "lon": -118.4845,
      "freshwater": true,
      "tideStation": null,
      "towns": [
        "Lake Isabella",
        "Kernville",
        "Wofford Heights",
        "Bodfish"
      ],
      "intro": "The Kern River's massive reservoir. Known for heavy wind and heavyweight crappie, Isabella is the southern Sierra's big water — miles of coves, flooded timber and river channel holding bass, panfish, catfish and stocked trout.",
      "species": {
        "spring": [
          "black-crappie",
          "largemouth-bass",
          "smallmouth-bass",
          "rainbow-trout",
          "bluegill"
        ],
        "summer": [
          "largemouth-bass",
          "smallmouth-bass",
          "channel-catfish",
          "bluegill"
        ],
        "fall": [
          "rainbow-trout",
          "largemouth-bass",
          "smallmouth-bass",
          "black-crappie"
        ],
        "winter": [
          "channel-catfish",
          "rainbow-trout"
        ]
      },
      "alsoCaught": [],
      "seasonal": "Spring crappie run is legendary — live minnows in the timber can fill a cooler. Summer wind makes the main body tough; fish the coves for bass at dawn and switch to catfish after dark. Fall brings a solid trout bite near the Kern inflow as the water cools. Winter is for the patient catfisherman.",
      "url": "https://www.tidesandtails.net/locations/lake-isabella",
      "liveConditionsNote": "Tides, water temperature, wind and the bite outlook are live readings shown on the page URL above; they change through the day and are not mirrored in this feed."
    }
  ]
}