On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, July 16. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — Packery and the Mustang backside, then the Port A jetties if the bulls are in.

13 mph S · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind.

5 mph N · high slack

Where

  • Snake Bight · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.6mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.6mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief