On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.8OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

No wind reading · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 8.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island beach - SP to Packery · 8.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils.

No wind reading · incoming

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

Where

  • LLM mecca. Fred Stone County Park = camping + kayak launch o · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Mansfield Cut · 8.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - South Padre north of Access 6 · 7.7sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief