On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Biscayne slack — boat traffic already did.

15 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 6.9sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 6.9channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West-side mangroves · 6.4mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

10 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief