On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.2OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 5.0channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

4.1OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph SSE · rain · high slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 4.6structure piling on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 4.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 4.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief