On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 6. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

7.8OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.0channel 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

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph ESE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief