On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, May 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

29 mph E · rain · high slack

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.8mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.8mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Snake Bight · 5.4grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

9.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — Packery and the Mustang backside, then the Port A jetties if the bulls are in.

16 mph SSE · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus brief