On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, April 19. 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.

9 mph S · 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

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — Nueces and Shamrock guts until the pass turns. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - PINS Bird Island Basin · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Corpus brief