On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 20. 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

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

9 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the next inch — this bay empties.

Wind not in · low slack

Where

  • Boca Paila · 6.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 5.6hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Ascension brief