On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, September 10. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph SE · 26% rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

8.2OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • St François flats · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Alphonse brief