On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, February 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.7OF 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.

No wind reading · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 8.4hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 8.4hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.8channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the drains and the colored water west of Flamingo.

11 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 7.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 7.0hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief