On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, January 21. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Sea of Abaco edges as they empty.

5 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 7.3creek bight on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 7.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • The Marls · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph ESE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief