On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, October 9. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

12 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 8.1channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 8.1mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 8.1channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

7.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — slide to guts and the ship-channel edges until it moves.

4 mph NW · 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.
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