On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, October 20. 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 — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

8 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Blackwater Sound · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.3hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.4OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph ESE · 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