On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 25. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.5OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — look, do not grind — this water is clear and they see you.

14 mph SE · 2% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.5serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Nine Mile Hole · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.5serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.0OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are in the mix — get off the skinny and sit the reefs. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

8 mph SSE · 2% rain · low slack

-0.24 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • F/V MISS TAKE · 6.9wreck edge on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Aransas Pass / jetties · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Lydia Ann Channel · 6.0channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief