On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, January 30. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.1OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

11 mph E · outgoing

Where

  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.7channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Blackwater Sound · 6.7mangrove edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 6.7channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief

Right desk

louisiana · Venice

Venice / Birdfoot

6.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait; slack on the delta is a pause.

4 mph SSW · high slack

No live gauge this hour — the printed tide is the forecast.

Where

  • South Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Venice west-bank marsh · 6.4marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Southwest Pass · 5.9pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Venice brief