On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point.

5 mph WNW · incoming

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Sabine Bank · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.7marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

8 mph ESE · low slack

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.8mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief