On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, October 9. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

4.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the same banks as they empty; the harbor holds the tarpon.

16 mph E · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 5.2hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 5.2channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Culebra banks · 5.2hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.8OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

Wind not in · low slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • San Luis Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief