On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, February 29. 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

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

6 mph ENE · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.3hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.6channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

6.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

8 mph SE · low slack

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

Where

  • Copano Bay reefs · 7.4oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Lydia Ann Channel · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Rockport brief