On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, September 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — wait for the next push under the bridges.

6 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 7.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Marathon bayside basins · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.3OF 10

Day

low

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

7 mph SSW · 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