On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, September 26. 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 — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

7 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
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Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

9.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — the pass at Port Aransas — this is current water, not a marsh drain.

11 mph SSE · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus brief