On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, January 21. 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

4.3OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

21 mph NW · thunderstorms · incoming

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 5.9pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 5.5pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 5.2marsh drain on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief