On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, February 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.3OF 10

Day

low

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

6 mph SW · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — sit the falling pass and the first harbor drains; this is current water.

1 mph S · outgoing

Where

  • Boca Grande Pass · 7.4pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.1sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Gasparilla Sound · 5.5grass flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief