On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, August 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

7 mph S · 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

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

Tarpon should be the day — Jupiter Inlet and the first Loxahatchee points — snook, then a beach tarpon.

3 mph S · incoming

Where

  • Jupiter Inlet · 7.4pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Juno Beach Pier · 7.4structure piling on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 7.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Jupiter brief