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

mexico · East Cape

East Cape / Los Barriles

9.5OF 10

Today

medium

Mahi-mahi should be the day — the East Cape beaches for rooster, then Gordo if the blue water is in.

5 mph WSW · 6% rain · incoming

Where

  • Gordo Banks · 10.0blue water on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Punta Colorada · 8.3sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the East Cape brief