On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

4.0OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph ESE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.25 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

    Open the Key West brief

    Right desk

    texas · Corpus

    Corpus Christi Bay

    7.8OF 10

    Today

    medium

    Redfish should be the day — the pass at Port Aransas — this is current water, not a marsh drain.

    17 mph S · 0% rain · outgoing

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

    Where

    • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • Lighthouse Lakes / Redfish Bay - ATLAS #1 · 8.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • Upper Laguna / Bird Island Basin · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    Open the Corpus brief