On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

9 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 7.7mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Farquhar

Farquhar Atoll

5.6OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally are the hunt — the lagoon is a look; the pass wants water. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

21 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Farquhar passes · 5.7pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Farquhar lagoon · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Farquhar brief