On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, May 28. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.4OF 10

Day

medium

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

13 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.0sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.8channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • West-side mangroves · 7.4mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • San Luis Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief