On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, December 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.5OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph E · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 5.7channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 4.9hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

5.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — the drains and the colored water west of Flamingo. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

29 mph E · rain · outgoing

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 6.2mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 6.2mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • First National Bank · 5.0hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief