On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

3 mph SW · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.2marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.8pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.4OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — the oceanside wrecks and the falling contentment flats.

8 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief