On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, November 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

9.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

8 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 - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Lighthouse Lakes Trail (SH 361) · 9.0mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

Wind not in · outgoing

Where

  • West-side mangroves · 7.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.4sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief