On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, May 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.8OF 10

Day

low

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

14 mph SE · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.2mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.4OF 10

Day

medium

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

16 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 8.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 7.8channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • West-side mangroves · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief