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

7.8OF 10

Today

medium

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

14 mph SSW · 3% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Follets Island CR 257 (free camping) · 8.1pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Peninsula beach - drivable/campable · 8.1pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.3OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils.

6 mph SSE · 0% rain · incoming

-0.07 ft

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

Where

  • South Bay · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
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