On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, August 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.6OF 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.

Wind not in · 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

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

3 mph N · low slack

No live gauge this hour — the printed tide is the forecast.

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 7.1oyster reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • San Luis Pass · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 6.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief