On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, February 23. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — Boca Paila and the drains; tarpon live in the darker mouths.

2 mph NE · outgoing

Where

  • Boca Paila · 7.8sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 6.7hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Ascension brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.3OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph SE · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief