On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, May 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the cut and the Exuma-edge banks as they fall.

9 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

11 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