On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, September 7. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

10 mph ESE · 26% rain · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 7.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
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Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

4.6OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

20 mph SSE · thunderstorms · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 5.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 5.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 5.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
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