On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, August 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.1OF 10

Day

low

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

No wind reading · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

6.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — get in the remaining water; this is a sight fishery, not a drain.

No wind reading · low slack

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

Where

  • Brazos Santiago Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Mansfield Cut · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 6.8grass flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the LLM brief