On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, January 8. 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

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph ENE · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 5.2grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 5.2hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 4.7mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

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

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Lighthouse Lakes Trail (SH 361) · 9.0mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief