On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — sight the grass and serpulid — do not fish Baffin like Rockport.

7 mph S · incoming

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

Where

  • Nine Mile Hole · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • 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.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait for the next dump off the marsh.

4 mph W · low slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.0marsh drain on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief