On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

9 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — flood St François and the lagoon — bones first, then a GT on the rim. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • St François flats · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Alphonse brief