On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, January 23. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.9OF 10

Day

low

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

No wind reading · 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 · 7.0mangrove edge on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Parguera

La Parguera / southwest

3.6OF 10

Day

medium

Snook are in the mix — sit the remaining guts until the cays breathe.

8 mph ESE · thunderstorms · low slack

Where

  • Magueyes Island · 3.7structure piling on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Parguera mangrove cays · 3.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Parguera brief