On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

4.1OF 10

Today

high

Speckled trout are the hunt — push Barataria and the bayside grass — trout first, reds on the drain later. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

9 mph NNW · thunderstorms · incoming

-0.22 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Barataria bayside · 5.2marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow · 5.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Grand Isle brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

3.7OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

2 mph ESE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.37 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

    Open the Islamorada brief