On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, January 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 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

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

10 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 6.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief