On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

4.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph ENE · thunderstorms · high slack

Where

  • Snake Bight · 5.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 4.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 4.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

8.8OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — Seven Mile current and the oceanside patches — permit and tarpon, not a bonefish morning.

11 mph E · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.3sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 7.9wreck edge on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Marathon bayside basins · 7.7grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief