On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, April 9. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — sit Caminada until it turns.

9 mph SSW · low slack

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

Where

  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow · 7.0mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Grand Isle State Park · 6.9sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Grand Isle brief

Right desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Current Cut and the east-side ocean flats — permit first, bones second.

9 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 8.4hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Current Cut · 6.8channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief