On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.9hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.9hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.9hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

9 mph SW · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • San Luis Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief