On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, January 24. 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.

10 mph ESE · incoming

Where

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

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

4.9OF 10

Day

low

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

1 mph NNE · rain · low slack

Where

  • Boca Paila · 5.0sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 4.0hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Ascension brief