On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, September 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

12 mph S · rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 6.9channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.6oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.4sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

7.4OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph SSW · rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Caminada Pass · 7.6pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Grand Isle State Park · 7.1sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Barataria bayside · 7.1marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Grand Isle brief