On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, April 10. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind.

6 mph NNE · high slack

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.6grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

17 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief