On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, December 29. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wait for a push — skinny clear water at slack is a walk.

17 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • South Bay · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

mexico · East Cape

East Cape / Los Barriles

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Roosterfish should be the day — the same wash — rooster faces the tide.

5 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • East Cape beaches · 7.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the East Cape brief