On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, December 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.9OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.7channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.7channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

6.5OF 10

Day

medium

Florida pompano are the hunt — hold for the next incoming through the jetties.

11 mph ESE · low slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 5.3structure piling on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 5.2pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 4.9mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief