On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, September 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.3OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.6mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

8.5OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — the wrecks and the falling ocean bank; pressured fish want a clean shot.

9 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.7sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Channel Five · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Islamorada brief