On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, August 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.6OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 7.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

4 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