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

4.2OF 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

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 4.5sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny.

15 mph S · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief