On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, April 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

16 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

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Snook should be the day — wait; slack here is traffic.

9 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 6.8structure piling on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 6.4mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief