On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, June 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

5 mph NNE · incoming

Where

  • Snake Bight · 7.7grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 7.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.7mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.6OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 5.6sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief