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

8.6OF 10

Today

medium

Red snapper should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

13 mph SSW · 1% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Flower Garden Banks · 9.4blue water on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

6.6OF 10

Today

high

Mahi-mahi should be the day — work East Matagorda reefs and the ICW exchange — there is almost no Gulf inlet. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

16 mph S · 0% rain · incoming

-0.24 ft

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

Where

    Open the Matagorda brief