On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, May 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait for a push — skinny clear water at slack is a walk.

17 mph ESE · high slack

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

Where

  • South Bay · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

mexico · East Cape

East Cape / Los Barriles

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Roosterfish should be the day — walk the wash or run the banks.

7 mph SSE · low slack

Where

  • East Cape beaches · 6.0sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the East Cape brief