On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, January 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

6.1OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — Caminada and the island backside as they empty. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

21 mph NNW · rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 7.1sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Caminada Pass · 6.8pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Barataria bayside · 6.8marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Grand Isle brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

10 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.0channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief