On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, February 20. 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.

6 mph SE · 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 · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — hold for moving water; Galveston slack is a boat ride.

15 mph SSE · high slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 8.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Galveston Island SP bayside trails · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Christmas Bay · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Galveston brief