On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, December 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.6OF 10

Day

medium

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

10 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

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — lake guts and the ship-channel edges until it turns.

9 mph N · low slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Calcasieu Pass · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief