On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, July 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — look, do not wade a high-slack school into the next zip code.

7 mph E · high slack

Where

  • West side white sand · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Bights and creeks · 6.0creek bight on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.9OF 10

Day

medium

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

5 mph N · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.2marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.8pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief