On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, November 23. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

6.9OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Esperanza and Culebra banks — bones and permit, not a San Juan tarpon sentence. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

18 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 6.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Culebra banks · 6.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 5.9channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — lake guts and the ship-channel edges until it turns.

No wind reading · low slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 7.7oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Calcasieu Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 6.0pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief