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

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — Packery and the Mustang backside, then the Port A jetties if the bulls are in.

7 mph ESE · incoming

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Nine Mile Hole / upper Laguna back country · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Corpus 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