On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, September 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

2 mph NNW · 35% rain · incoming

Where

  • Blackwater Sound · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

12 mph S · rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 6.9channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Copano Bay reefs · 6.6oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 6.4sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief