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 SE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.23 ft

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

Where

    Open the Key West brief

    Right desk

    texas · Galveston

    Galveston Bay

    7.7OF 10

    Today

    medium

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

    13 mph SSW · 1% rain · outgoing

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

    Where

    • West Bay grass · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
    • Christmas Bay · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
    • TX - Galveston Island SP bayside trails · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
    Open the Galveston brief