On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, March 8. 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

medium

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

12 mph SE · outgoing

Where

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

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

5.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

21 mph NW · thunderstorms · incoming

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 5.9pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.9pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 5.6marsh drain on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief