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

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are the hunt — wait for the flood; these fish have seen the catalog.

Wind not in · low slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

bahamas · G. Bahama

Grand Bahama

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — East or West End pancakes — one fish, on foot. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • West End pancakes · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • East End flats · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the G. Bahama brief