On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, October 16. 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 — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

7 mph SSE · 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

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

2 mph SSE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.1grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief