On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait for the next push through the jetties.

9 mph S · 6% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.8serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.8serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 7.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Corpus brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

10 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 5.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.6mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.6mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief