On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

6.0OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally are the hunt — look, do not wade a high-slack school across lodge water.

16 mph SSE · high slack

Where

  • St François flats · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Alphonse brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

7 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.8oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.7sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief