On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, December 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils.

18 mph SE · incoming

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

Where

  • South Bay · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

6.2OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — flood St François and the lagoon — bones first, then a GT on the rim. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • St François flats · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Alphonse brief