On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

6.4OF 10

Day

low

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

3 mph NE · outgoing

Where

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

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.2OF 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.

22 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

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