On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, January 22. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — look, do not grind — this water is clear and they see you. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph SE · 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

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the same flat, thinner; pick the darker single.

5 mph SSE · outgoing

Where

  • West End pancakes · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • East End flats · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the G. Bahama brief