On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.1OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

9 mph SE · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island beach - SP to Packery · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

7.6OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish should be the day — work East Matagorda reefs and the ICW exchange — there is almost no Gulf inlet.

8 mph SSW · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Port O'Connor jetties · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Matagorda Ship Channel · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Matagorda Beach / Jetty Park FM 2031 · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Matagorda brief