On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

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

10 mph N · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.2marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.8pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Copano and Redfish Bay grass — this is the mid-coast skiff day.

10 mph SSE · incoming

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

Where

  • Redfish Bay grass · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief