On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.0OF 10

Day

low

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

11 mph SE · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

6.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — wait for the next inch on the south side.

15 mph E · low slack

Where

  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 6.4channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Esperanza banks · 4.9hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Culebra banks · 4.9hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Vieques brief