On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, December 28. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the pass at Port Aransas — this is current water, not a marsh drain.

13 mph S · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Lighthouse Lakes Trail (SH 361) · 9.0mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 9.0pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Lighthouse Lakes / Redfish Bay - ATLAS #1 · 9.0mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

8 mph SSW · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Yarborough Pass (PINS mile 15.5) · 7.8pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Upper Laguna / Bird Island Basin · 7.8pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.5serpulid reef on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief