Fort Pierce Tides for Saturday, May 23

TODAY: Saturday brings a textbook late-spring tide cycle to Fort Pierce — two highs, two lows, and a morning low that nearly bottoms out, NOAA CO-OPS data shows.

TIDES — FORT PIERCE (May 23, 2026) High: 2:30 a.m. — 2.8 ft Low: 8:50 a.m. — 0.0 ft High: 3:02 p.m. — 2.5 ft Low: 9:09 p.m. — 0.1 ft

THIS WEEK: May's dry-season exit is underway on the Treasure Coast. Morning lows in the zero-to-trace range are typical for late May, but Saturday's zero-foot reading is as flat as the gauge gets — a marked contrast from last year's same-week lows, which hovered closer to 0.3 feet, according to NOAA tidal records. Expect the pattern to hold through the holiday weekend before early-June sea breezes begin pushing water levels slightly higher on afternoon floods.

ON THE WATER: The zero-foot low at 8:50 a.m. will drain Fort Pierce Inlet hard, concentrating baitfish — particularly glass minnows and scaled sardines — in the deeper channel edges as the tide bottoms out. Redfish and snook follow the current seam rather than the flat, so position near the north jetty rocks between 7:30 and 9:15 a.m. with a live pilchard or a white paddle-tail soft plastic on a quarter-ounce jig head. The incoming flood that follows will push through by mid-morning and reach the afternoon high of 2.5 feet by 3:02 p.m. — a strong second window for trout on the flats east of the inlet mouth.

ALERTS: No active NWS watches, warnings, or advisories are in effect for St. Lucie County at this time, forecasters said.

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