On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, December 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — the drains and the colored water west of Flamingo.

No wind reading · outgoing

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 7.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 7.0hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph NW · rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 7.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.7marsh drain on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Sabine Bank · 6.3pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Sabine brief