On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, September 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

4.8OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — the same sand as it empties; the GT still owns the edge. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

25 mph SE · rain · outgoing

Where

  • St François flats · 5.5hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 5.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Alphonse 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.

16 mph SE · 6% rain · 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