On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, July 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.3OF 10

Day

low

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

8 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.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.5channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — sit the remaining guts until the bay breathes.

5 mph N · low slack

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • First National Bank · 5.6hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief