On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

mexico · East Cape

East Cape / Los Barriles

9.5OF 10

Today

medium

Mahi-mahi should be the day — the same wash — rooster faces the tide.

6 mph WNW · 1% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Gordo Banks · 10.0blue water on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Punta Colorada · 8.7sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the East Cape brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.4OF 10

Today

high

Mahi-mahi are the hunt — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

11 mph SW · 2% rain · high slack

+0.04 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

    Open the Sabine brief