On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, January 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph ESE · 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

mexico · La Paz

La Paz / Espíritu Santo

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Roosterfish should be the day — Espíritu Santo and the rocky beaches — rooster, then El Bajo if the season is on.

6 mph NNW · incoming

Where

  • Espíritu Santo · 7.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the La Paz brief