On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, April 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

9.0OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils.

4 mph S · incoming

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

Where

  • South Bay · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 9.0grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

9 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.9pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.8marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 6.3pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief