On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

louisiana · Venice

Venice / Birdfoot

4.2OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait; slack on the delta is a pause.

9 mph NNE · thunderstorms · high slack

-0.16 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Venice west-bank marsh · 4.4marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Venice brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.6OF 10

Today

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood the Neches and Sabine marsh, then the drains at Texas Point.

5 mph W · 13% rain · incoming

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 7.7marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Sabine brief