On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, August 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

12 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

17 mph ENE · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.1pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.1marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief