On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, August 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the Sea of Abaco edges as they empty.

8 mph NE · 2% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 7.1sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 6.6creek bight on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.2OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

28 mph ESE · 9% rain · incoming

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.4sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Biscayne brief