On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, August 19. 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.

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

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.5channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief