On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, March 9. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Marls and Cherokee on foot, or the ocean cays by skiff.

5 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 7.4sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 6.8creek bight on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph ESE · incoming

No live gauge this hour — the printed tide is the forecast.

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief