On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

13 mph SSE · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 6.7grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 6.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.7mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — sit the river-marsh drains — this water dumps after a blow.

8 mph NW · rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.8pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.8marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Sabine Bank · 6.5pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Sabine brief