On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, February 29. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Sailfish should be the day — sit the river-marsh drains — this water dumps after a blow.

7 mph ESE · outgoing

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

Where

    Open the Sabine brief

    Right desk

    texas · Galveston

    Galveston Bay

    8.7OF 10

    Day

    low

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

    5 mph WNW · outgoing

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

    Where

    • Flower Garden Banks · 8.0blue water on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
    Open the Galveston brief