On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, October 3. 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 are the hunt — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

10 mph SE · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.1channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.2mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
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Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

8.9OF 10

Day

medium

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

  • San Luis Pass · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Trinity Bay shoreline · 8.4marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
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