On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, February 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — the surf and the park pier still fish; the bay wants current.

5 mph WSW · high slack

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

Where

  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 7.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow · 7.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Caminada Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Grand Isle brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

7.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — Nueces and Shamrock guts until the pass turns. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Corpus brief