On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

4.7OF 10

Day

low

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

10 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

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

9 mph SSE · 4% rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief