On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.3OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

13 mph SSE · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 9.6channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Packery Channel jetties (N) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

4.1OF 10

Today

high

Hogfish are the hunt — run or rest — slack on this water is not a hunt. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

4 mph SE · thunderstorms · high slack

+0.31 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 4.3channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Channel Five · 4.3channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Indian Key Channel · 4.3channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Islamorada brief