On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

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

9 mph ESE · 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

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the next incoming; they will not eat a bad presentation here.

8 mph SE · low slack

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West-side mangroves · 6.2mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Biscayne brief