On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, December 26. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.3OF 10

Day

low

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

10 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.0channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
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Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.4OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · outgoing

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

Where

  • Galveston North Jetty · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 9.0marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Bolivar Roads Channel · 9.0pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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