On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

4.0OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

3 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.38 ft

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

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

6.4OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — flood the Ascension flats off Punta Allen — bones first, permit if you earned it.

2 mph NNE · 8% rain · incoming

Where

    Open the Ascension brief