On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

seychelles · Farquhar

Farquhar Atoll

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — the throats — this is why the week is booked. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

21 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Farquhar passes · 7.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Farquhar lagoon · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Farquhar brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

6 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief