On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, December 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.2OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

16 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West-side mangroves · 6.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

9 mph SSE · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island beach - SP to Packery · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief