On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, January 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.2OF 10

Day

medium

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

4 mph SSW · low slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — push Barataria and the bayside grass — trout first, reds on the drain later.

10 mph NNW · incoming

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

Where

  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 8.3sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow · 8.3mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Caminada Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Grand Isle brief