On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 22. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

4.7OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

21 mph NW · thunderstorms · incoming

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 5.9pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 5.5pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 5.2marsh drain on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

No wind reading · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 8.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief