On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, November 28. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.8OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

10 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.9channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
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Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.6OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

8 mph ESE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.7marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 8.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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