On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, January 1. 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 are the hunt — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

11 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 8.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — Packery and the Mustang backside, then the Port A jetties if the bulls are in.

12 mph ESE · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus brief