On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, November 16. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

9.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

13 mph SSE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 9.0marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — look, do not wade a high-slack school into the next zip code.

8 mph NW · high slack

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 5.8creek bight on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West side white sand · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Andros brief