On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, November 7. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph SW · 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

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

5.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Esperanza and Culebra banks — bones and permit, not a San Juan tarpon sentence.

12 mph E · rain · incoming

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 5.6hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Culebra banks · 5.6hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 4.9channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief