On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, February 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — look, do not grind — this water is clear and they see you. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

19 mph ESE · high slack

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

Where

  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.5serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Nine Mile Hole · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.5serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point.

11 mph S · incoming

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 8.7pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.7marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief