On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Venice

Venice / Birdfoot

7.8OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood the west-bank ponds, then the south passes if the bulls are in.

6 mph NW · incoming

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

Where

  • South Pass · 8.4pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Southwest Pass · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Venice west-bank marsh · 7.4marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Venice brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.2OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief