On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, September 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.7OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.4marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

8.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — Mitchell's Cut and the ship-channel side do the exchanging.

8 mph SSW · outgoing

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

Where

  • Mitchells Cut · 8.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Matagorda Beach / Jetty Park FM 2031 · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - East Matagorda Bay (Matagorda Harbor) · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Matagorda brief