On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, March 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.1OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

9.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

7 mph SSE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 9.0marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief