On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, August 23. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

5.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — look, do not wade a high-slack school into the next zip code.

6 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 5.8creek bight on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West side white sand · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

10 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief