On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, May 28. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.9OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

10 mph SE · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.2mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

10 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief