On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, August 1. 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.

10 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.8oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.7sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

mexico · Mujeres

Isla Mujeres / Cancún bank

4.9OF 10

Day

low

Sailfish are in the mix — the same edge as it dumps; troll along it, never across.

10 mph ENE · outgoing

Where

    Open the Mujeres brief