On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

5.0OF 10

Day

low

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

7 mph ENE · rain · low slack

Where

  • Boca Paila · 5.6sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 4.5hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Ascension brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.2OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief