On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, August 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.2OF 10

Day

medium

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

13 mph SSE · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

Wind not in · low slack

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.8mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief