On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.3OF 10

Day

low

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

6 mph SSE · 5% rain · 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 · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

10 mph E · rain · incoming

Where

  • Blackwater Sound · 7.1mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.0channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.0channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief