On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, February 4. 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

medium

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

10 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 6.4sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the drops off Brazos Santiago and the spoil edges. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph SE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Mansfield Cut · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - South Padre north of Access 6 · 8.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • South Padre - north of Beach Access 6 · 8.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief