On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, February 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country.

10 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

9 mph SSW · high slack

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.4marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief