On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, January 13. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.4OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph ESE · 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

5.7OF 10

Day

medium

Snook are in the mix — wait; slack here is traffic.

8 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 5.7structure piling on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 5.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 5.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief