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

6.7OF 10

Day

medium

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

10 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

puerto-rico · Parguera

La Parguera / southwest

4.5OF 10

Day

low

Snook should be the day — flood the mangrove cays — snook first, a tarpon in the darker mouths.

10 mph ESE · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Magueyes Island · 5.5structure piling on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Parguera mangrove cays · 5.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Parguera brief