On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — look, do not wade a high-slack school into the next zip code.

5 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 6.5creek bight on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West side white sand · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Andros brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

8.8OF 10

Day

medium

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

9 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 8.3hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 8.3hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 8.3hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief