On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, December 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

4 mph SSW · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 6.9serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

10 mph WSW · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.7oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief