On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, April 15. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

9.0OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the bridge shadow and the falling wrecks.

8 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.7sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 8.3wreck edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — wait for the next push through the jetties.

18 mph ESE · high slack

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 8.1serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Corpus brief