On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, August 25. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

4.7OF 10

Today

medium

Permit are the hunt — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

10 mph E · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Tavernier Creek · 6.5channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.0channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 5.2mangrove edge on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

7.0OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph SE · 11% rain · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 6.7sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief