On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, April 16. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.7OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

9 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — Nueces and Shamrock guts until the pass turns.

12 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.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Corpus brief