On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, April 22. 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

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

11 mph W · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bolivar Peninsula west end / North Jetty · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief

Right desk

texas · Matagorda

Matagorda Bay

7.7OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — mid-bay shell and the channel until current starts.

10 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • $10 Matagorda Co. permit, 72-hr camping. Big-red · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • $10 Matagorda Co. permit, 72-hr camping. Rough, eroding, emp · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Port O'Connor jetties · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Matagorda brief