On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, October 6. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — flood the Ascension flats off Punta Allen — bones first, permit if you earned it.

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 9.0hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Boca Paila · 8.3sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Ascension brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

11 mph SE · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief