On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, February 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.8OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

10 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

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

15 mph SSE · 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