On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, May 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny.

12 mph SE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

13 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 8.1channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 8.1mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 8.1channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief