On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, August 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

1 mph SSW · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • San Luis Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence.

8 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel Five · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief