On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, April 6. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

Wind not in · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.7oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — mid-bay shell and the channel until current starts.

9 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Mitchells Cut · 8.0channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • $10 Matagorda Co. permit, 72-hr camping. Big-red · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • $10 Matagorda Co. permit, 72-hr camping. Rough, eroding, emp · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Matagorda brief