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

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.1OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook.

13 mph SE · 4% rain · incoming

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.4sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne 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.

9 mph SSE · 2% rain · low slack

-0.23 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