On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, June 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Tarpon should be the day — wait — slack in Boca Grande Pass is a boat parade, not a hunt.

7 mph W · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.5OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph S · incoming

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 8.7pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Sabine Bank · 8.7pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 8.3marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief