On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

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

7 mph N · 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 · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

8.7OF 10

Day

medium

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

6 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.7sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 8.4channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 8.3wreck edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief