On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

6.5OF 10

Day

medium

Florida pompano are the hunt — wait; slack here is traffic.

9 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 5.4structure piling on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 5.0pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 5.0mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief

Right desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

7.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — lake guts and the ship-channel edges until it turns.

11 mph SSW · low slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Calcasieu Pass · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief