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

8.4OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish are the hunt — Mitchell's Cut and the ship-channel side do the exchanging. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph SSW · 1% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Port O'Connor jetties · 9.6pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Matagorda Ship Channel · 9.6pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mitchells Cut · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Matagorda brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.1OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

10 mph NNW · 7% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 8.1channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.8sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West-side mangroves · 7.4mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief