Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding. 🌫 Murky all week after the storm — the water isn't settling
Sources & confidence
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
Our own model
Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.
Safety gates
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Ocean City, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
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Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
Now live: 3016 spots across 406 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsRelief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.
Open the seafloor mapThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appCameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».
transparency ~3 m · satellite, 2 days agosatellite estimate · may differ right at the shore
The full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
The full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appNorth jetty of the inlet, about 2 m along the rock, with tautog and sheepshead. Maryland forbids shooting projectile gear within 100 yards of any person, swimming area, dive flag or vessel.
Google MapsThe full spot briefing is part of the subscription: entry, bottom, hazards, tide window.
Open in the appReef built on a named shipwreck 12 nautical miles south of the inlet in about 18 m. High iron that concentrates tautog, black sea bass and sheepshead.
Google MapsMaryland DNR reef 7 nautical miles north-east of the inlet in about 15 m. Tautog, black sea bass and sheepshead; striped bass may not be taken by spear in Maryland.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
US spearfishing law is state-by-state. License, spearable species, powerhead rules and distances vary; federal sanctuaries (Gray's Reef, the Keys, Flower Garden Banks) ban spearfishing. Always confirm with the state agency and local ordinances.
Ocean City has rock entry points such as Ocean City Inlet North Jetty, Isle of Wight Reef and African Queen Reef. Ocean City's inlet jetty plus its offshore wrecks and reefs — Isle of Wight and the African Queen — hold tautog, sheepshead and sea bass. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Jun–Oct at the Chesapeake mouth; no striped bass, 100-yard no-shoot rule.
Turbid Chesapeake mouth; clearer offshore, 18–25 °C.
Intermediate: strict 100-yard no-shoot rule (people/flags/vessels), no striped bass.
Yes — in Ocean City almost certainly, but the licence is the STATE's, not a federal one: nearly every coastal state requires its own saltwater fishing licence, and several add a free registration or an extra endorsement on top (Florida's free State Reef Fish Survey for reef fish, Texas's saltwater endorsement, California's Ocean Enhancement Validation). Hawaii asks nothing of residents and charges visitors the NRMFL. What may be speared, and with what gear, is state law too — the price and the details depend on the state, so read the «Law» block below.
