On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, July 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.4OF 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

  • 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 · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Tarpon should be the day — wait; slack here is traffic.

9 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 6.1structure piling on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 5.7pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 5.7mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief