On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, April 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

9.0OF 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 · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

8.9OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence.

11 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Islamorada oceanside flats · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tea Table / Indian Key fills · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.3sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief