On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, January 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

5.8OF 10

Day

medium

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the next push under the bridges.

5 mph ESE · rain · high slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 5.4sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Marathon bayside basins · 4.4grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 4.2channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

5 mph WSW · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island beach - SP to Packery · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief