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

8.5OF 10

Today

medium

Red snapper should be the day — push West and East Bay grass as the wind lets water back in.

7 mph W · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

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

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

4.6OF 10

Today

high

Mahi-mahi should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

4 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.30 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • Islamorada Hump · 7.2blue water on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Islamorada brief