On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, September 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.9OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

7 mph ESE · 42% rain · incoming

Where

  • Blackwater Sound · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.2channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

louisiana · Calcasieu

Calcasieu / Cameron

8.2OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait; this pass wants moving water.

6 mph SSE · 16% rain · 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 · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cameron jetties · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Calcasieu brief