On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, February 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Sea of Abaco edges as they empty.

5 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 7.8sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 7.3creek bight on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

12 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.4marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief