On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, March 6. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

9.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

4 mph SW · outgoing

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

Where

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

Right desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Calcasieu Lake shell, then the pass if the wind lets water in.

6 mph NNW · rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Pass · 7.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 6.9oyster reef on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cameron jetties · 6.6pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Calcasieu brief