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 · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

4.0OF 10

Today

medium

Permit are the hunt — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 5.9channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.4channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.2hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

6.2OF 10

Today

medium

Giant trevally should be the day — flood St François and the lagoon — bones first, then a GT on the rim. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph SE · 0% rain · incoming

Where

  • St François flats · 6.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 5.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Alphonse brief