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.
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Right desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

4.1OF 10

Today

high

Speckled trout are the hunt — push Barataria and the bayside grass — trout first, reds on the drain later. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

6 mph NNW · thunderstorms · incoming

-0.22 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • Barataria bayside · 5.2marsh drain on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • LA - Leeville / Golden Meadow · 5.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Grand Isle brief