On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, May 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

14 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

8.8OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Sea of Abaco edges as they empty.

12 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 8.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 7.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 7.5creek bight on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief