On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

4.0OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph SE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.23 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

    Open the Key West brief

    Right desk

    texas · Baffin

    Upper Laguna / Baffin

    7.8OF 10

    Today

    medium

    Speckled trout are the hunt — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

    13 mph SSE · 0% rain · outgoing

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

    Where

    • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • Upper Laguna / Bird Island Basin · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 8.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    Open the Baffin brief