On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

29 mph E · rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.2mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.2mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 5.6grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the drops off Brazos Santiago and the spoil edges.

12 mph SSE · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - South Padre north of Access 6 · 8.7sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • South Padre - north of Beach Access 6 · 8.7sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Brazos Santiago Pass · 8.4pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief