On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, January 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

9 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.0channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny.

14 mph SE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief