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

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

6.9OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Current Cut and the east-side ocean flats — permit first, bones second.

15 mph ESE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Current Cut · 6.3channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

13 mph SE · 2% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief