On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, July 13. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.7OF 10

Day

low

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

6 mph SE · low slack

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.4channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.5mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

7.2OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wait; this pass wants moving water.

Wind not in · high slack

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

Where

  • Calcasieu Lake reefs · 7.5oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Calcasieu Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 5.9pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief