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

7.7OF 10

Today

medium

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

10 mph S · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

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

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.7OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — the drops off Brazos Santiago and the spoil edges.

9 mph SSE · 0% rain · outgoing

+0.05 ft

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

Where

  • Brazos Santiago Pass · 9.6pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mansfield Cut · 8.9pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - South Padre north of Access 6 · 8.7sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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