On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, August 6. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.8OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph SSE · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

5.0OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — flood the Ascension flats off Punta Allen — bones first, permit if you earned it.

7 mph ENE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Boca Paila · 6.2sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 6.1hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Ascension brief