On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, April 17. 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

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

8.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — the Cameron jetties and the pass — fall flounder water before the LDWF close.

8 mph NNE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Pass · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 8.2oyster reef on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cameron jetties · 8.1pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Calcasieu brief