On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

4.2OF 10

Today

high

Hogfish are the hunt — wait for the next push under the bridges. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

4 mph SE · thunderstorms · high slack

+0.31 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 4.5sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.2OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish should be the day — the drops off Brazos Santiago and the spoil edges.

11 mph SSE · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - South Padre north of Access 6 · 8.4sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • South Padre - north of Beach Access 6 · 8.4sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • South Bay · 6.7grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief