On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.3OF 10

Day

medium

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

7 mph N · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 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 · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Tarpon should be the day — the inlet jetties and the river mouth on the dump.

Wind not in · outgoing

Where

  • Jupiter Inlet · 7.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 7.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Juno Beach Pier · 7.4structure piling on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Jupiter brief