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

bahamas · Andros

Andros

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — west-side white sand — schools, then the double-digit singles.

12 mph E · 11% rain · incoming

Where

  • West side white sand · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • East side ocean cays · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Bights and creeks · 7.1creek bight on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

9 mph SSE · 4% 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