On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

8.1OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Culebra banks · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 6.8channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

7.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — lake guts and the ship-channel edges until it turns.

6 mph SW · low slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 7.1oyster 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