On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, April 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — verify which creeks are actually open, then wait for water.

12 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Cherokee Sound · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 6.6sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • The Marls · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get in the remaining water; this is a sight fishery, not a drain. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - South Padre north of Access 6 · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • South Padre - north of Beach Access 6 · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • South Bay · 6.8grass flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the LLM brief