Permit should be the day — the wrecks and the falling ocean bank; pressured fish want a clean shot.

Where

This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.

• FL - Long Key State Park (Keys)

  sand dropoff · saved map · mid

  8.4

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

  • — sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • — In-play: Permit, Bonefish, Yellowtail snapper.
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• Channel 2 / Channel 5

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  7.4

  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 outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • — In-play: Permit.
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• Channel Five

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  7.4

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

  USGS GNIS 280292

  • — channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • — In-play: Permit.
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• Indian Key Channel

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  7.4

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

  USGS GNIS 284511

  • — channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • — In-play: Permit.
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• Islamorada oceanside flats

  hard flat · field manual · skinny

  6.7

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

  • — hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
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• Robbie's / Islamorada bayside

  mangrove edge · field manual · mid

  6.7

  Tarpon roll under the breakfast dock. That is a tourist fact. The backcountry behind it is the fishery.

  • — mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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