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

6.7OF 10

Today

high

Mahi-mahi should be the day — work East Matagorda reefs and the ICW exchange — there is almost no Gulf inlet. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph SSW · 2% rain · incoming

-0.23 ft

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

Where

    Open the Matagorda brief

    Right desk

    texas · Baffin

    Upper Laguna / Baffin

    6.1OF 10

    Today

    medium

    Mahi-mahi are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

    6 mph SE · 1% rain · low slack

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

    Where

      Open the Baffin brief