On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, February 11. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.6OF 10

Day

medium

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

15 mph SSW · outgoing

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

Where

  • Flower Garden Banks · 8.0blue water on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

9 mph S · outgoing

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

Where

    Open the Matagorda brief