On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, September 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

9.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the pass at Port Aransas — this is current water, not a marsh drain.

17 mph S · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

12 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief