On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 16. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

9.0OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the bridge shadow and the falling wrecks.

10 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.7sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 8.3wreck edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph ESE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • 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.
Open the Baffin brief