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

7.1OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · 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

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Boca Paila and the drains; tarpon live in the darker mouths.

9 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Boca Paila · 7.8sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 6.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Ascension brief