On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, March 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.8OF 10

Day

low

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

No wind reading · 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

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

9.0OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Calcasieu Lake shell, then the pass if the wind lets water in.

12 mph SW · incoming

No live gauge this hour — the printed tide is the forecast.

Where

  • Calcasieu Pass · 8.7pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 8.6oyster reef on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cameron jetties · 8.1pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Calcasieu brief