On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, May 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

Wind not in · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — the same sand as it empties; the GT still owns the edge. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

21 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • St François flats · 7.2hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Alphonse brief