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Pilots Station East, S.W. Pass, LA Daily Water Report — October 4, 2026

Pilots Station East gets a clear green light for boating and a strong nod for paddling today, with the usual coastal caveat: low wind does not erase a roughly one-metre swell. Boating leads the board at 8.6/10 and kayaking follows at 8.1/10, a substantial improvement from the windier, lower-scoring conditions logged over the past several days. The working window is broad. West-southwest winds are only about 3 knots on representative conditions, with a 2.1–12.3-knot daily range and the strongest gusts—15.9 knots—early around 7 AM. Skies are nearly clear, rain is not forecast, and pressure is steady near 1015 hPa. That is a pleasant setup for getting underway, though the sea state remains more meaningful than the wind-wave figure suggests: waves run 0.9–1.4 metres, driven largely by a one-metre, 4.6-second swell from 158 degrees. The calmest forecast wave height arrives late, near 11 PM, at 0.92 metres—not exactly a reason to postpone a daylight trip, but a useful reminder that “light wind” and “flat water” are different animals. For fishing, the 7/10 score favors the daylight major solunar period from 6:51 to 8:51 AM, overlapping sunrise at 6:52 AM, with a second major period from 6:51 to 8:51 PM after sunset. The tide falls from a 0.54-metre high at 2:44 AM toward a -0.01-metre low at 3:08 PM, so plan around changing water rather than expecting a stationary all-day pattern. Wildlife also rates 7.2/10, with the low-tide approach and lighter winds supporting the score. Those scores are planning aids, not a safety clearance. Sailing is a middling 6.1/10: smooth air is comfortable, but it does not offer much drive, especially compared with the stronger sailing scores recorded during recent windier days. Diving has no usable score today, and no underwater-visibility estimate is supplied; the 18.3-kilometre atmospheric visibility should not be mistaken for water clarity. The next two days look gentler in wave height—0.5–0.9 metres Monday and 0.4–0.8 metres Tuesday—but rain chances rise and winds build sharply from Wednesday onward, alongside increasingly rough seas. Best bet: launch early for the sunrise solunar window, enjoy the light breeze, and give the short-period swell the respect it is quietly asking for.