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

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

4.0OF 10

Today

high

Hogfish are the hunt — wait for the next push under the bridges. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

4 mph SE · thunderstorms · high slack

+0.31 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • Marathon bayside basins · 4.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

6.7OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils.

7 mph SSE · 0% rain · incoming

-0.04 ft

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

Where

  • South Bay · 7.9grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 7.9grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 7.9grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief