On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, September 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

4 mph W · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.0marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Parguera

La Parguera / southwest

8.6OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Magueyes Island · 8.1structure piling on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Parguera mangrove cays · 7.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Parguera brief