On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the drains and the colored water west of Flamingo.

8 mph ESE · rain · outgoing

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.8mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.8mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 5.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

10 mph SSE · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief