On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, October 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind.

Wind not in · high slack

Where

  • Snake Bight · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 7.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

9 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.8oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.7sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief