On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, September 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the creek mouths and the bights; tarpon live in the darker water.

4 mph ESE · 23% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 7.5creek bight on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West side white sand · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.8OF 10

Day

low

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

5 mph ENE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Blackwater Sound · 7.1mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.0channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.0channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief