On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, July 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook.

6 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Featherbed Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Safety Valve · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.7sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

Wind not in · low slack

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.8mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief