On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, July 21. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country.

9 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

9 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.8oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.7sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief