On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — lake guts and the ship-channel edges until it turns.

7 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 6.8oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Calcasieu Pass · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 5.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence.

8 mph ENE · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.0sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 7.2channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel Five · 7.2channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief