On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, August 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

4.4OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

15 mph SE · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 5.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.2channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.2mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic 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 · 27% rain · 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