On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, August 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.0OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph S · 0% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.5serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Nine Mile Hole · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.5serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

bahamas · G. Bahama

Grand Bahama

5.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are in the mix — the same flat, thinner; pick the darker single. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph WSW · rain · outgoing

Where

  • West End pancakes · 5.5hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • East End flats · 5.5hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the G. Bahama brief