On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.8OF 10

Day

low

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

5 mph SE · 1% rain · 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

7.5OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph S · 1% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 7.8pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.4marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Sabine Bank · 7.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Sabine brief