On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, October 27. 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

medium

Redfish should be the day — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

8 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.2OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

10 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.4mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief