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

8.3OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — 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

  • Port O'Connor jetties · 9.3pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Matagorda Ship Channel · 9.3pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Matagorda brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.7OF 10

Today

high

Speckled trout are the hunt — flood Copano and Redfish Bay grass — this is the mid-coast skiff day.

11 mph S · 2% rain · incoming

-0.25 ft

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

Where

  • Aransas Pass / jetties · 7.9pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • F/V MISS TAKE · 7.8wreck edge on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief