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

4.2OF 10

Today

medium

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

7 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

    Open the Flamingo brief

    Right desk

    florida · Islamorada

    Islamorada / Matecumbe

    4.8OF 10

    Today

    high

    Mahi-mahi should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

    7 mph SSE · thunderstorms · incoming

    +0.29 ft

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

    Where

    • Islamorada Hump · 7.2blue water on a incoming tide is a classic match.
    Open the Islamorada brief