On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

4.0OF 10

Today

medium

Tarpon are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph SE · thunderstorms · high slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 4.8channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 4.8channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 4.0mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

4.1OF 10

Today

medium

Permit are the hunt — run or rest — slack on this water is not a hunt.

10 mph SE · thunderstorms · high slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 4.9sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 4.5channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Channel Five · 4.5channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Islamorada brief