On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, December 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the flood on the west side.

5 mph NE · low slack

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 5.9creek bight on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West side white sand · 5.6hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • East side ocean cays · 5.6hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.4OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 5.6sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief