On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, July 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the Esperanza and Culebra banks — bones and permit, not a San Juan tarpon sentence.

15 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Culebra banks · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 6.6channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.3OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — look, do not grind — this water is clear and they see you.

11 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.2serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief