On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, September 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Day

low

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

13 mph SSE · 8% 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.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

12 mph S · rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 6.9channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.6oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.4sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief