On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, October 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

5 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.8channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • West-side mangroves · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are the hunt — look, do not grind a high-slack school into the reserve.

12 mph ENE · high slack

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Culebra banks · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 5.9channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Vieques brief