On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 25. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.1OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook.

13 mph SE · 4% rain · incoming

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.4sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.4OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph SE · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.7channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief