This is Artificial Lure with your Puerto Rico fishing report. Out here around Borinquen the water’s waking up nice. Trade winds are light to moderate out of the east, 10–15 knots, seas 2–4 feet on the north and east coasts, a bit calmer in the south. Skies are partly cloudy with those quick Caribbean showers rolling through, but nothing that should shut down the bite. Air temps are pushing mid‑80s by midday, cool and comfortable at first light. Tides today are running a morning **incoming** and an afternoon **falling** on most coasts. That morning push is lining up perfect with first light, so inshore structure and reef edges turn on early. Use that last hour of the incoming and the first of the outgoing for your best shot at a flurry. Sunrise is right around 5:50 AM, sunset about 7:00 PM, so you’ve got a long window. The peak feeding has been early morning and again just before dark, with a slower, picky bite through the hot middle of the day unless you go deep. Inshore, the reports out of San Juan Bay, Loíza, and the south coast mangroves have been steady. Snook and tarpon are cruising the shadow lines and creek mouths. Anglers soaking live sardinas and small mullet have been hooking multiple fish per tide, with a mix of 5–15 lb tarpon and slot‑size snook. Soft plastic paddle tails in pearl or gold, rigged on 1/8–1/4 oz jigheads, have been the artificial of choice. A white bucktail tipped with shrimp or cut bait is also getting chewed. On the reefs off Fajardo, Vieques, and out toward Culebra, the night and early‑morning snapper bite has been solid. Yellowtail and mutton snapper are coming over the rail on cut ballyhoo, squid, and fresh cut sardine. Expect a handful of keepers per angler when the current is right. Chunks drifting back with a little chum slick are hard to beat. For artificials, small metal jigs in pink or chartreuse, worked slow near the bottom, are fooling porgy, small grouper, and the occasional keeper mutton. Offshore, boats running the trench north of San Juan and out of Fajardo have seen decent bluewater action. Recent trips have reported a mix of school‑size mahi, a few yellowfin tuna, and the odd blue marlin in the spread. Skirted ballyhoo in pink/white and blue/white, plus small jet heads, are the go‑to trolling lures. Tuna are more interested in cedar plugs and darker feathers pulled a little deeper. If you find birds and surface life, drop a vertical jig down the marks; 150–250 gram jigs in sardine or mackerel patterns are producing blackfin and almacos. If you’re strictly an artificials angler, here’s the short list: - Inshore: **bone or white flukes**, small paddle tails, topwater walkers in bone or mullet pattern at dawn. - Reef: **metal jigs** 40–80 grams, natural colors. - Offshore: **skirted ballyhoo**, jet heads, and cedar plugs in dark and natural tones. For bait, you can’t go wrong with live sardinas, small mullet, shrimp, and fresh cut ballyhoo. Fresh is key; frozen works, but the bite is always better on something that’s still shining. A couple of hot spots to keep on your radar: - **Laguna San José / San Juan Bay system** – great for tarpon, snook, and jack action at first and last light, especially around bridges and channel edges. - **Fajardo to Icacos reef line** – steady yellowtail, mutton, and mixed reef species, plus quick access to the deep if you want to chase mahi and tuna. That’s the word from the water around Puerto Rico today. Rig light for the mangroves, heavy for the trench, and keep one rod ready for whatever pops up on the surface. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next 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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