On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

6 mph N · high slack

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 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 · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

Bonefish should be the day — the bridge shadow and the falling wrecks.

5 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 7.8sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 6.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 6.6wreck edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief