On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, August 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally are the hunt — look, do not wade a high-slack school across lodge water.

Wind not in · high slack

Where

  • St François flats · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Alphonse brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the oceanside wrecks and the falling contentment flats.

10 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief