On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

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

11 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.2hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.2hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.2hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

8 mph SSE · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief