On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

12 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West-side mangroves · 7.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

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

3 mph NW · 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