On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

11 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.0channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

9 mph SSW · incoming

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 8.7pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 8.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.7marsh drain on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief