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

5.3OF 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

    Open the Biscayne brief

    Right desk

    texas · Galveston

    Galveston Bay

    8.3OF 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

    • San Luis Pass · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • TX - Follets Island CR 257 (free camping) · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • Bolivar Peninsula beach - drivable/campable · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    Open the Galveston brief