On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, June 6. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — look, do not wade a high-slack school into the next zip code.

8 mph NNW · high slack

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 6.5creek bight on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West side white sand · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — hold for moving water; Galveston slack is a boat ride. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • West Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Christmas Bay · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Galveston brief