On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.8OF 10

Day

low

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

No wind reading · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.4marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — flood the Ascension flats off Punta Allen — bones first, permit if you earned it.

8 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Boca Paila · 7.4sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Ascension brief