On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 31. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

4.4OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 5.2grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 5.2hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

4.5OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph SSW · thunderstorms · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 5.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 5.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 5.7marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief