On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, July 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

6.8OF 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

  • Caminada Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Grand Isle State Park · 6.6sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 6.6sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Grand Isle brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

2 mph SSE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 5.6grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief