On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, October 23. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.5OF 10

Day

low

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

11 mph SE · 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

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

11 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 8.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.4sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West-side mangroves · 8.1mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief