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

8.2OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny.

14 mph S · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Upper Laguna / Bird Island Basin · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 8.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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Right desk

louisiana · Venice

Venice / Birdfoot

4.5OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood the west-bank ponds, then the south passes if the bulls are in.

3 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

-0.25 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Venice west-bank marsh · 5.2marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
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