Permit should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence.

Where

• Islamorada oceanside flats

  hard flat · field manual · skinny

  8.4

  The mecca. Big, few, educated. Clean incoming, sun at your back. Lorelei is intel, not a mark.

  • — hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
  skifffly

• Tea Table / Indian Key fills

  hard flat · public structure · skinny

  8.4

  Named fills and banks. Incoming is the shot. Pressure is the tax. Indian Key Channel is USGS GNIS 284511.

  • — hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
  skiffflyspin

• FL - Long Key State Park (Keys)

  sand dropoff · saved map · mid

  8.3

  Oceanfront camping with bonefish flats at the tent. Reserve far ahead. · camp-surf · GULF ATLAS! - FISH

  • — sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • — In-play: Permit, Bonefish, Tarpon, Hogfish, Yellowtail snapper, Mutton snapper.
  structurespinwade

• Channel 2 / Channel 5

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  7.5

  Moving water. Permit and tarpon on the fall and the first of the flood. Channel Five is USGS GNIS 280292 just south.

  • — channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • — In-play: Permit, Tarpon.
  skiffflyspin

• Channel Five

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  7.5

  USGS GNIS 280292. The named cut. Current is the whole fishery. Adjacent FKNMS polygons are no-take.

  USGS GNIS 280292

  • — channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • — In-play: Permit, Tarpon.
  skiffflyspin

• Indian Key Channel

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  7.5

  USGS GNIS 284511. The fill-and-cut current between Tea Table and Indian Key.

  USGS GNIS 284511

  • — channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • — In-play: Permit, Tarpon.
  skiffspinfly