On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, July 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

low

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

5 mph WNW · 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

mexico · La Paz

La Paz / Espíritu Santo

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Roosterfish should be the day — the same island edges as they fall.

7 mph S · outgoing

Where

  • Espíritu Santo · 7.4sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the La Paz brief