On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, April 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

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

10 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.7oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

6.6OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — look, do not wade a high-slack school across lodge water. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • St François flats · 6.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Alphonse brief