On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, June 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

5 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.9pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.8marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 6.3pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

7.3OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.2hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.2hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.2hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief