On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, October 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

8 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

8.9OF 10

Day

medium

Snook should be the day — the inlet jetties and the river mouth on the dump.

5 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • Jupiter Inlet · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 8.4mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Juno Beach Pier · 8.1structure piling on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Jupiter brief