On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, January 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

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

3 mph NNE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Sabine Bank · 9.0pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Sabine brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

11 mph NNW · outgoing

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

Where

  • TX - Follets Island CR 257 (free camping) · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Peninsula beach - drivable/campable · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Follets Island / Bluewater Hwy beach - FREE camping · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Galveston brief