On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, March 28. 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.

8 mph SSE · 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.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.6channel 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

Tarpon should be the day — sit the falling pass and the first harbor drains; this is current water.

5 mph SW · outgoing

Where

  • Boca Grande Pass · 8.7pass jetty on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 8.4sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Gasparilla Sound · 6.7grass flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief