On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

5.5OF 10

Day

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — sit Caminada until it turns.

9 mph NNE · rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Grand Isle State Park · 5.6sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 5.6sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Caminada Pass · 5.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Grand Isle brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.9OF 10

Day

low

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

16 mph ESE · 0% rain · 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