On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

4.5OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — the drains and the colored water west of Flamingo.

8 mph E · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 4.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

4.2OF 10

Day

medium

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

2 mph S · thunderstorms · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 5.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 5.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 5.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief