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

4.5OF 10

Today

medium

Permit are the hunt — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph E · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 6.0channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.5channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 4.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

6.4OF 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.

4 mph ESE · rain · incoming

+0.21 ft

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

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.5channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 6.5sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief