On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

6 mph N · high slack

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 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

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — Current Cut and the east-side ocean flats — permit first, bones second.

9 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Current Cut · 6.1channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief