On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, April 12. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph NW · rain · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 5.8pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 5.7marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the drains and the colored water west of Flamingo.

13 mph SSE · outgoing

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 8.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 8.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.2grass flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief