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

mexico · Mujeres

Isla Mujeres / Cancún bank

9.1OF 10

Today

medium

Mahi-mahi should be the day — the same edge as it dumps; troll along it, never across.

Wind not in · outgoing

Where

  • Cancún / Mujeres bank · 9.4blue water on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Contoy / north bank · 8.7blue water on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Mujeres brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.4OF 10

Today

high

Mahi-mahi are the hunt — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

11 mph SW · 2% rain · high slack

+0.04 ft

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

Where

    Open the Sabine brief