On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

4.9OF 10

Today

high

Mahi-mahi should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

2 mph ESE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.38 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • Islamorada Hump · 7.2blue water on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Islamorada brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

4.4OF 10

Today

medium

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

7 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

    Open the Flamingo brief