On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

6 mph WNW · rain · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.1grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

mexico · East Cape

East Cape / Los Barriles

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Roosterfish should be the day — the beach still fishes; the bank wants a troll.

5 mph W · high slack

Where

  • East Cape beaches · 5.9sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the East Cape brief