On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 31. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.7OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

6 mph S · 10% rain · 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

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

17 mph SSW · rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 7.8pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 7.8pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 7.8marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief