On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, December 6. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

13 mph W · low slack

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • TX - Bolivar Peninsula west end / North Jetty · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

6.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait; this bay does not refresh itself.

10 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • Port O'Connor jetties · 6.9pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Matagorda Ship Channel · 6.9pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • $10 Matagorda Co. permit, 72-hr camping. Big-red · 6.9sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Matagorda brief