On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Copano and Redfish Bay grass — this is the mid-coast skiff day.

6 mph S · 7% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Redfish Bay grass · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.9OF 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.
  • Blackwater Sound · 7.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief