On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, July 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

low

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

6 mph SSW · outgoing

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Parguera

La Parguera / southwest

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Snook are the hunt — sit the remaining guts until the cays breathe.

Wind not in · low slack

Where

  • Magueyes Island · 6.9structure piling on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Parguera mangrove cays · 6.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Parguera brief