On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, February 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.2OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind.

No wind reading · high slack

Where

  • Snake Bight · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • First National Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

4 mph WSW · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island beach - SP to Packery · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief