On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.7OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph SSE · 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

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — lake guts and the ship-channel edges until it turns.

3 mph W · low slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 6.8oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Calcasieu Pass · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 5.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief