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.

7 mph SW · 2% rain · low slack

-0.09 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

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.1OF 10

Today

medium

Mahi-mahi should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

10 mph NNW · 7% rain · outgoing

Where

    Open the Biscayne brief