53°F
South County surf temp
05:18
AM Breachway slack low
Waning 18%
Illumination moon phase
Bay Anchovy
Predominant estuary bait
Saltwater migration and covert sign
South County breachways showed strong outgoing current pushes between 03:00 and sunrise. School bass and slot stripers are actively staging around granite jetties, feeding aggressively on dense schools of bay anchovies and peanut bunker swept through the rocky bottleneck.
Inland oak ridges throughout Exeter and Arcadia management areas report fresh rub lines along secondary transition edges. Pre-rut buck movement remains concentrated during the final thirty minutes of legal light along damp swamp edges and greenbrier thickets.
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