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

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.2OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

8 mph E · 7% rain · incoming

+0.19 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • West-side mangroves · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.8OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

7 mph SW · 2% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • West Bay grass · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Christmas Bay · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Galveston Island SP bayside trails · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Galveston brief