On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 25. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.4OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

6 mph SSE · 3% rain · outgoing

-0.22 ft

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 9.6pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.6pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • San Luis Pass · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny.

15 mph ESE · 1% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief