On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, January 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

8 mph SSE · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 5.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 4.9hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the ocean banks as they empty; these fish are educated and the window is short.

No wind reading · outgoing

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.7channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.4sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 7.0hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief