On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, January 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

7.3OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · 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

mexico · East Cape

East Cape / Los Barriles

7.2OF 10

Day

low

Roosterfish should be the day — the same wash — rooster faces the tide.

7 mph ENE · outgoing

Where

  • East Cape beaches · 7.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the East Cape brief