On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 25. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

4.3OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — Seven Mile current and the oceanside patches — permit and tarpon, not a bonefish morning.

5 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 5.6sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 5.4wreck edge on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Marathon bayside basins · 5.2grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.4OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph SE · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.7channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief