On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, September 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.3OF 10

Day

low

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

7 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.6mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

6 mph SSW · outgoing

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief