On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, January 21. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

6.1OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — push Barataria and the bayside grass — trout first, reds on the drain later.

12 mph WSW · rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 6.7sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Caminada Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Grand Isle State Park · 6.2sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Grand Isle brief