On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.1OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — the cut and the Exuma-edge banks as they fall.

7 mph E · 1% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

7.7OF 10

Today

high

Speckled trout are the hunt — push Barataria and the bayside grass — trout first, reds on the drain later. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

3 mph WSW · 9% rain · incoming

-0.23 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Caminada Pass · 9.0pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Barataria bayside · 7.4marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Grand Isle brief