On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

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

13 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.4sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 8.1channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 8.0wreck edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

9 mph SSE · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief