On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the oceanside wrecks and the falling contentment flats.

12 mph ESE · 15% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph SE · 35% rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief