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

6.6OF 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.

14 mph S · 0% rain · incoming

-0.22 ft

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

Where

    Open the Matagorda brief

    Right desk

    texas · Rockport

    Aransas / Copano / Redfish

    8.9OF 10

    Today

    medium

    Mahi-mahi should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

    12 mph S · 0% rain · outgoing

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

    Where

    • F/V MISS TAKE · 8.4wreck edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    Open the Rockport brief