On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, January 21. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph ESE · 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

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.0OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph SSE · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.4sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief