On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, January 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Marls and Cherokee on foot, or the ocean cays by skiff.

No wind reading · incoming

Where

  • The Marls · 7.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 7.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 7.1creek bight on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — sit the river-marsh drains — this water dumps after a blow.

12 mph SE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 8.1pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 8.1marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Sabine Bank · 7.9pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Sabine brief