On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.3OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout are the hunt — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph SE · 2% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.1OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

6 mph SW · 11% rain · incoming

-0.21 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Sabine brief