On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.5OF 10

Day

low

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

13 mph ESE · low slack

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.4channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.5mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Copano and Redfish Bay grass — this is the mid-coast skiff day.

7 mph S · incoming

No live gauge this hour — the printed tide is the forecast.

Where

  • Redfish Bay grass · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Pringle Lake (boat-in via POC) · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief