On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, October 23. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.2OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 8.4mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

7.8OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — pole the remaining water; slack here is short.

9 mph SSE · high slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.2oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Redfish Bay grass · 6.6grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Army Hole, Matagorda Island WMA · 6.6grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief