On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, September 30. 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

low

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

7 mph S · 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

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — hold for moving water; Galveston slack is a boat ride.

8 mph W · high slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • West Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Christmas Bay · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Galveston brief