CatchWindow fishing intelligence

Kings Point, NY Daily Water Report — September 4, 2026

Kings Point is a quiet-water day, not a power day. Diving leads at 8.4 out of 10, with boating at 7.9 and kayaking at 7.5, while wildlife sits at 7.4. Fishing, surfing, and sailing cluster in the mid-fives. That is a clear green light for getting on or under the water if you want ease; it is a shrug if you need real swell or a working breeze. Scores describe suitability, not safety. A representative west wind of 4 knots, gusting to 7, keeps the surface honest, though the forecast range runs 2.1 to 10.7 knots and the strongest gust, 16.3 knots, is timed for 17:00. Seas stay small: 0.3 to 0.5 meters, with a representative 0.42-meter sea at 6.65 seconds and a 0.34-meter swell at 6.95 seconds from 134 degrees. Wind waves are a rounding error. The calmest reading is 0.34 meters near 23:00. Marine water is 23.6 C, a tenth of a degree above average, with a 0.6 m/s current toward 108 degrees. Air is muggy—23.7 C that feels like 27.5, ranging 22.5 to 29.5—under 84 percent cloud, UV of 0, and a dry sheet. Pressure holds near 1011 hPa. Atmospheric visibility of 16.7 km is not a window into the water. The useful windows sit around the tides and the solunar majors. Dawn’s 05:50–07:50 period follows the 04:51 high of 2.15 meters and sunrise at 06:25, when wind should still be on the light side. The 11:02 low of 0.29 meters, with a minor period at 12:20–13:20, is the day’s exposure play for shoreline time. The 17:11 high of 2.48 meters overlaps the late gust and the 17:50–19:50 major toward sunset at 19:26—more water, more breeze, more tradeoff. Fishing’s middling 5.8 leans on that timing, tide state, pressure, wind, and whatever clarity is in the feed; surfing’s 5.7 is simply the small, short swell plus light wind; sailing’s 5.1 is starved of consistent air under the overcast. Against the last week of CatchWindow history, diving has barely moved from 8.3–8.4. Boating is a step off yesterday’s 8.2 and well below the 9-plus marks of August 31. Kayaking has cooled from yesterday’s 8.4. Fishing has eased from the low sevens late last week. Pressure has drifted down from the low 1020s. Through the 8th the forecast stays similar: light peaks under 11 knots, waves mostly 0.3–0.5 meters, rain chances in the single digits. The 9th and 10th raise precipitation odds to 34 percent, and the 10th brings 16-knot peaks and seas up toward 0.9 meters. Best bet: take the still morning for a dive or