On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

4.9OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — flood St François and the lagoon — bones first, then a GT on the rim.

18 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

  • St François flats · 6.1hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 6.1hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Alphonse brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.7oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief