On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, October 21. 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 — wait for a push — skinny clear water at slack is a walk.

12 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • South Bay · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Parguera

La Parguera / southwest

8.3OF 10

Day

low

Snook should be the day — flood the mangrove cays — snook first, a tarpon in the darker mouths.

7 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Magueyes Island · 7.8structure piling on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Parguera mangrove cays · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Parguera brief