On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, November 7. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — 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

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief