On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, July 4. 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

low

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

No wind reading · high slack

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 6.6sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.8OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

13 mph S · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 8.1pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.1pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.1marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief