On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.9OF 10

Day

low

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

No wind reading · outgoing

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

Where

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

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

9.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Copano and Redfish Bay grass — this is the mid-coast skiff day.

10 mph SSE · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief