On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

4.9OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — wait for the next flood after the shower clears. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph SSE · rain · low slack

Where

  • Marquesas · 5.0hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 5.0hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 5.0hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

No wind reading · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief