On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, August 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.3OF 10

Today

high

Mangrove / gray snapper are the hunt — do not grind a Biscayne slack — boat traffic already did. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

8 mph ESE · 12% rain · high slack

+0.18 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West-side mangroves · 5.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 5.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

4.3OF 10

Today

medium

Hogfish are the hunt — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph E · thunderstorms · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 4.8channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 4.8channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 3.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief