On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, May 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

5.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait for the next dump off the marsh. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

21 mph NW · rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.0pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 5.4marsh drain on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.3pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

9 mph W · outgoing

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

Where

  • San Luis Pass · 8.1pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.1pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.1marsh drain on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief