On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, October 15. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.9OF 10

Day

low

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

11 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.7OF 10

Day

low

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

13 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Blackwater Sound · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief