On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, August 7. 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

low

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 · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

7.4OF 10

Day

medium

Permit are the hunt — wait for the flood; Islamorada does not forgive a low-slack cast.

11 mph E · low slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Channel Five · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief