On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 31. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Current Cut and the east-side ocean flats — permit first, bones second.

14 mph ENE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Current Cut · 6.3channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.5OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — the same reef edges, then the drop if you came to troll. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

22 mph SE · rain · outgoing

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 6.0sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Mahé brief