On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, December 7. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.4OF 10

Day

low

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

11 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 6.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

7.8OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — look, do not grind a high-slack school across the biosphere.

9 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Paila · 5.9sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Ascension brief