On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, April 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

8.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.4sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 8.1channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 8.0wreck edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — hold for moving water; Galveston slack is a boat ride.

9 mph W · high slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 8.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Galveston Island SP bayside trails · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Christmas Bay · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Galveston brief