On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, January 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the creek mouths and the bights; tarpon live in the darker water.

5 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 7.3creek bight on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West side white sand · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait for a push — skinny clear water at slack is a walk. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • South Bay · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief