On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

6.3OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are in the mix — mid-bay shell and the channel until current starts. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

8 mph SSW · 2% rain · low slack

-0.22 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • TX - East Matagorda Bay (Matagorda Harbor) · 5.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • East Matagorda Bay - THE DRIFT BAY · 5.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Colorado River delta · 5.0river delta on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Matagorda brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

5.7OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — the Esperanza and Culebra banks — bones and permit, not a San Juan tarpon sentence.

16 mph E · rain · incoming

Where

  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 6.3channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief