On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

7.2OF 10

Day

low

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

3 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 7.4sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 6.8creek bight on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

8 mph NW · rain · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 5.8pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 5.7marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief