On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, September 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

mexico · Mujeres

Isla Mujeres / Cancún bank

5.0OF 10

Day

low

Sailfish are in the mix — the Cancún / Mujeres bank — sail on the current, not a bonefish morning.

Wind not in · incoming

Where

    Open the Mujeres brief

    Right desk

    texas · Rockport

    Aransas / Copano / Redfish

    7.1OF 10

    Day

    medium

    Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

    12 mph S · rain · low slack

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

    Where

    • Lydia Ann Channel · 6.9channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
    • Copano Bay reefs · 6.6oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
    • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.4sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
    Open the Rockport brief