On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, February 22. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country.

6 mph NE · incoming

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph ESE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief