On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, May 11. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — the drains and the colored water west of Flamingo. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph ENE · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.1mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.1mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Snake Bight · 4.8grass flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

10 mph SSE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 8.4channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.4pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief