On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, September 6. 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.

5 mph ENE · 42% rain · 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 · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — hold for moving water; Galveston slack is a boat ride. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

20 mph SSW · 25% rain · high slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • West Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Christmas Bay · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Galveston brief