On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

21 mph SSE · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 8.1channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.8sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West-side mangroves · 7.4mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.3OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — look, do not grind — this water is clear and they see you.

4 mph SSW · high slack

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

Where

  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
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