On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, July 7. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.5OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 8.4channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.1sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West-side mangroves · 7.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

5.8OF 10

Day

low

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

4 mph NE · rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 6.8pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 6.8pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 6.8marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief