On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 10. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

5.6OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — look, do not grind a high-slack school into the reserve.

15 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 5.7channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Esperanza banks · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Culebra banks · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

7.8OF 10

Day

low

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

3 mph WSW · incoming

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • 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