Bonefish should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

Where

• Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside

  hard flat · public structure · skinny

  8.4

  The park is the launch, not a honey hole. Clean incoming on the named banks. Adjacent FKNMS SPAs are no-take — the red polygons are the legal source.

  • — hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
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• Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank

  hard flat · public structure · skinny

  8.4

  Named oceanside key and bank. Incoming is the shot. Educated fish, short window, boat traffic from the park.

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

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  7.5

  The south cut toward Plantation Key. Current is the fishery. Channel 5 is the next desk south — do not steal it.

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

  mangrove edge · public structure · mid

  7.0

  Bayside. Baby tarpon and snook along the roots. Not the oceanside slam. Outgoing along the mangrove.

  • — mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • — In-play: Tarpon.
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• Card Sound / Jewfish Creek

  channel gut · public structure · deep

  6.8

  The north throat. Public bridge and cut current. Not a Biscayne bank and not Islamorada. Baby tarpon and snook on the moving water.

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