On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, September 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

8 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.6mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — wait for the next push through the jetties.

13 mph S · high slack

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

Where

  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 8.1serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Bird Island Basin (PINS) · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Corpus brief