On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.2OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — the pass at Port Aransas — this is current water, not a marsh drain. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph SSE · 0% rain · outgoing

-0.19 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

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

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.0OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

9 mph SE · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.7channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief