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

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.5OF 10

Today

high

Snook are the hunt — wait for a push — skinny clear water at slack is a walk.

6 mph SSE · 0% rain · high slack

-0.01 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Isla Blanca Park (South Padre) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.3OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

12 mph S · 1% rain · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
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