On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

11 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.0channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

bahamas · Andros

Andros

8.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the creek mouths and the bights; tarpon live in the darker water.

4 mph NW · outgoing

Where

  • Bights and creeks · 7.5creek bight on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • West side white sand · 7.0hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • East side ocean cays · 7.0hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Andros brief