On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, January 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

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

9 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Snake Bight · 5.9grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.7mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.7mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

4 mph WSW · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.7marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief