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

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.3OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are in the mix — 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

  • Sabine Bank · 5.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

4.4OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — the same banks as they empty; the harbor holds the tarpon.

15 mph E · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 4.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief