On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, February 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Day

low

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

17 mph ESE · 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

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

Permit are the hunt — run or rest — slack on this water is not a hunt.

12 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 7.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Islamorada oceanside flats · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tea Table / Indian Key fills · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief