On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, October 8. 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.

7 mph NE · 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

bahamas · G. Bahama

Grand Bahama

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the same flat, thinner; pick the darker single.

7 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • West End pancakes · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • East End flats · 6.1hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the G. Bahama brief