On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 30. 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.

2 mph SE · 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

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.2OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the oceanside wrecks and the falling contentment flats.

13 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief