On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, September 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.2OF 10

Day

low

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

4 mph E · 23% 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

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils.

7 mph SSE · 5% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - South Padre north of Access 6 · 8.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • South Padre - north of Beach Access 6 · 8.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • South Bay · 7.9grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief