On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.1OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — the cut and the Exuma-edge banks as they fall.

7 mph ESE · 1% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

8.3OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — work East Matagorda reefs and the ICW exchange — there is almost no Gulf inlet. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

12 mph SSW · 1% rain · incoming

-0.22 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Port O'Connor jetties · 9.3pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Matagorda Ship Channel · 9.3pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Matagorda brief