On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, September 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the Marls and Cherokee on foot, or the ocean cays by skiff.

12 mph E · rain · incoming

Where

  • Cherokee Sound · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 6.5sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • The Marls · 6.1hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

13 mph SE · 7% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief