On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, February 15. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.0OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 5.9channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the Pass — tarpon in the throat, then Gasparilla grass for reds and snook.

7 mph W · incoming

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 7.4pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief