How to Use Big Buoy

Guides for getting the most out of Big Buoy — finding marine conditions, reading buoy data, saving spots, tides, solunar, and more.

• Checking Buoys and Why Is It Important? — Buoys give you the real numbers, straight from the source. How I use live water temp, waves, and wind to find fish and sanity-check the forecast.
• Why Should I Use the "Your Location" Tab? — One tap pulls live conditions and tides for right where you're standing. Why the Your Location tab is so handy, and how to save spots while you're out.
• Planning Your Trip Around the Wind — Wind makes or breaks a day on the water. How to read speed and direction, work windward and leeward shorelines, and pick the right forecast model.
• Checking Tides & Current — Tide and current aren't the same thing, and they don't run on the same clock. How to pull both anywhere on the map, with solunar windows right on top.
• What in the World Is the Solunar Table? — Does the moon really decide when fish bite? What the solunar table is, whether it works, and how to stack majors and minors with tide and light.