On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, January 22. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.6OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph E · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.0channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.0channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.6hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.6OF 10

Day

medium

Bonefish should be the day — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook.

11 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Featherbed Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Safety Valve · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief