On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, March 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

5 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

9.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

3 mph NNE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 9.0pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 9.0marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Sabine Bank · 9.0pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Sabine brief