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

7.8OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — flood Copano and Redfish Bay grass — this is the mid-coast skiff day. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

12 mph SSW · 0% rain · incoming

-0.26 ft

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

Where

  • Aransas Pass / jetties · 8.6pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny.

15 mph S · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Packery Channel jetties (N) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief