On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, October 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Seven Mile current and the oceanside patches — permit and tarpon, not a bonefish morning.

9 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 7.7wreck edge on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

9 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.8oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.7sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief