On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, April 14. 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.

13 mph SSE · 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

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — hold for moving water; Galveston slack is a boat ride. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph SSW · 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