On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, September 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

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

6 mph SSE · 7% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 8.1serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
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Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

10 mph E · rain · incoming

Where

  • Blackwater Sound · 7.1mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.0channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.0channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
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