On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, May 23. 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 should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

14 mph ESE · high slack

Where

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

Right desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

8.4OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — Caminada and the island backside as they empty.

6 mph NW · outgoing

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

Where

  • Caminada Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Barataria bayside · 8.1marsh drain on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Grand Isle State Park · 7.8sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Grand Isle brief