On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, July 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

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

12 mph SE · 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

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — wait for the flood; Islamorada does not forgive a low-slack cast.

8 mph ESE · low slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Channel Five · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief