On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, December 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

7.7OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · high slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 6.6sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Marathon bayside basins · 6.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 5.2channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — Packery and the Mustang backside, then the Port A jetties if the bulls are in.

Wind not in · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus brief