On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, February 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.9OF 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.

10 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 8.4hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.8channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

7.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind.

10 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Snake Bight · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • First National Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 5.9mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief