On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, June 29. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

6 mph SSE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.2mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.2mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 5.6grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

10 mph SSE · 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