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

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

7.1OF 10

Today

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — Caminada and the island backside as they empty.

5 mph SW · 9% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Barataria bayside · 8.1marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow · 7.3mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Grand Isle brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.1OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

14 mph SW · 3% rain · incoming

-0.04 ft

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 9.3pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Sabine Bank · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.7marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief