On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, December 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wait for the next push through the jetties.

16 mph S · 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.
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Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

12 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.0channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
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