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

  • Blackwater Sound · 4.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.0OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

6 mph ESE · 7% rain · incoming

+0.21 ft

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

Where

  • West-side mangroves · 6.7mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief