On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, August 13. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

6.9OF 10

Day

medium

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

5 mph SSW · 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 · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

8 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 7.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief