On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, April 18. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

11 mph ESE · 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

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Snook should be the day — wait; slack here is traffic.

6 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 7.1structure piling on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 6.6mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief