On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.3OF 10

Today

medium

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

8 mph S · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 8.4channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.4pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
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Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

7.8OF 10

Today

high

Mangrove / gray snapper are the hunt — Nueces and Shamrock guts until the pass turns. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

7 mph SSW · 1% rain · low slack

-0.14 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • F/V MISS TAKE · 7.6wreck edge on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 6.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 6.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
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