On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, May 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the next inch — this bay empties.

9 mph E · low slack

Where

  • Boca Paila · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 6.0hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Ascension brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

13 mph SE · 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