On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, January 30. 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 are the hunt — 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 · 8.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

9 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 7.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief