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

4.2OF 10

Today

high

Hogfish are the hunt — run or rest — slack on this water is not a hunt. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

1 mph SE · thunderstorms · high slack

+0.40 ft

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

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 4.5sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Islamorada brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

3.8OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — the oceanside wrecks and the falling contentment flats. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph SSE · thunderstorms · outgoing

+0.39 ft

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

Where

    Open the Key West brief