On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, August 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

5.5OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — look, do not grind a high-slack school into the reserve.

13 mph E · rain · high slack

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 5.5channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Culebra banks · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

6 mph SW · 4% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.4marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief