On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, December 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

8.0OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • The Marls · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 7.1creek bight on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

3 mph N · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 9.0marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief