On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, August 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.1OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph SSE · 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

puerto-rico · San Juan

San Juan / Condado

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

Tarpon are the hunt — hold for the next push through the lagoon.

12 mph E · low slack

Where

  • Condado Lagoon · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • San Juan Bay · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the San Juan brief