On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, February 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

7 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.8channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the Marls and Cherokee on foot, or the ocean cays by skiff.

5 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 7.4sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cherokee Sound · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 6.8creek bight on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief