On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, February 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

No wind reading · incoming

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 8.4hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 8.4hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.8channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

6.8OF 10

Day

low

Florida pompano are the hunt — wait; slack here is traffic.

No wind reading · 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