On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, January 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

6 mph SSW · 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 · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — make the run or wait; slack out here is expensive.

No wind reading · high slack

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief