On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, September 9. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

7.1OF 10

Day

low

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

13 mph ESE · rain · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.2channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.2OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

4 mph SSW · rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 6.9channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 6.7serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 6.7serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief