On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, December 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.8OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

Wind not in · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Lighthouse Lakes Trail (SH 361) · 9.0mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.9OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief