On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.8OF 10

Today

high

King mackerel are the hunt — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

6 mph SW · 2% rain · low slack

-0.06 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Flower Garden Banks · 10.0blue water on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.9OF 10

Today

medium

Mahi-mahi should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

9 mph SSW · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • F/V MISS TAKE · 8.4wreck edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief