On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, April 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.7OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

11 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.4mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.4channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind.

8 mph NE · high slack

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Snake Bight · 6.6grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief