On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, February 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — sit the remaining guts until the bay breathes.

13 mph ESE · low slack

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.5mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.5mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • First National Bank · 4.9hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

No wind reading · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 9.0pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 9.0marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.0pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief