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 · Galveston

Galveston Bay

6.8OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

2 mph N · 23% rain · outgoing

-0.08 ft

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 9.3pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.3pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • San Luis Pass · 8.1pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

7.9OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish should be the day — Mitchell's Cut and the ship-channel side do the exchanging.

No wind reading · outgoing

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

Where

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