On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 13. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.6OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

10 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 8.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief