On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait for the next dump off the marsh.

3 mph NW · low slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.9pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 5.8marsh drain on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence.

14 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel Five · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief