On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 15. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

7.4OF 10

Day

medium

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

15 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.0sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Islamorada oceanside flats · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tea Table / Indian Key fills · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Islamorada brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

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

14 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