On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.3OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

12 mph S · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Lighthouse Lakes Trail (SH 361) · 8.4mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Lighthouse Lakes / Redfish Bay - ATLAS #1 · 8.4mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 8.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.2OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — push West and East Bay grass as the wind lets water back in. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

7 mph SW · 3% rain · incoming

-0.06 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • West Bay grass · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Christmas Bay · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Galveston Island SP bayside trails · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief