On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, May 11. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

12 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Current Cut and the east-side ocean flats — permit first, bones second.

9 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Current Cut · 6.8channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief