On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, November 29. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Biscayne slack — boat traffic already did.

No wind reading · high slack

Where

  • Featherbed Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Safety Valve · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • West-side mangroves · 5.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.4OF 10

Day

medium

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

7 mph WNW · rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.2mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.2mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.1grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief