On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, December 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.4OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

1 mph NNE · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.7oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 7.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief