On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, November 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

7.9OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Current Cut · 5.9channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.8OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

9 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief