On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.9OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph SE · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

11 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.4mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief