On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, January 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

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

No wind reading · incoming

Where

  • Featherbed Bank · 7.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Safety Valve · 7.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.0sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.8OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

10 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.2channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief