On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, December 16. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.5OF 10

Day

medium

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Biscayne slack — boat traffic already did.

11 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 5.7sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 5.7channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph SE · incoming

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

Where

  • South Bay · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief