On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, September 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

6 mph E · 35% rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait; this pass wants moving water.

6 mph SSE · 16% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Calcasieu Pass · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief