On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, June 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.3OF 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 · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.0marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

9.1OF 10

Day

medium

Bonefish should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

7 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 9.0channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.7sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 7.7hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief