On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, July 7. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.6OF 10

Day

low

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

7 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 8.4channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.7channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 7.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

texas · Galveston

Galveston Bay

5.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — hold for moving water; Galveston slack is a boat ride.

4 mph NE · rain · high slack

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

Where

  • East Bay reefs / Hanna's · 6.1oyster reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • San Luis Pass · 5.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Galveston North Jetty · 5.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Galveston brief