On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, February 24. 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.

13 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.7oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

mexico · Mujeres

Isla Mujeres / Cancún bank

5.7OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph ENE · outgoing

Where

    Open the Mujeres brief