On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, September 15. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — look, do not grind — this water is clear and they see you.

10 mph SSE · high slack

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

Where

  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

2 mph SSE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.1grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief