On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, May 25. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

11 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

seychelles · Farquhar

Farquhar Atoll

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — the lagoon is a look; the pass wants water. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

22 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Farquhar passes · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Farquhar lagoon · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Farquhar brief