On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, September 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

5.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

10 mph SSE · thunderstorms · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 5.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 5.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 5.7marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

Wind not in · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief