On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, January 31. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.6OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.3mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Farquhar

Farquhar Atoll

5.9OF 10

Day

low

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

25 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Farquhar passes · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Farquhar lagoon · 6.2hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Farquhar brief