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

8.3OF 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.

3 mph WSW · outgoing

+0.29 ft

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

Where

  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.6pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • San Luis Pass · 8.4pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.4marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

8.0OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — Mitchell's Cut and the ship-channel side do the exchanging. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph SE · 2% rain · outgoing

-0.00 ft

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

Where

  • Port O'Connor jetties · 9.3pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Matagorda Ship Channel · 9.3pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Mitchells Cut · 8.1channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Matagorda brief