On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

8 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.0OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph ESE · rain · high slack

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.8mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.8mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Snake Bight · 5.4grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief