On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, October 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.5OF 10

Day

low

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

3 mph WNW · 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

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

7 mph SSE · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief