On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, September 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

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

6 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

4.8OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — look, do not grind a high-slack school across the biosphere.

7 mph ESE · rain · high slack

Where

  • Boca Paila · 5.4sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 5.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Ascension brief