On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

9 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 8.3mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 8.3mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — Nueces and Shamrock guts until the pass turns.

18 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - PINS Bird Island Basin · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Corpus brief