On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, May 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

Wind not in · 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.
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Right desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Esperanza and Culebra banks — bones and permit, not a San Juan tarpon sentence.

14 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Culebra banks · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 6.6channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
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