On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, April 15. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

9.1OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 9.0channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.7sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West-side mangroves · 8.4mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

12 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.0marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief