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Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

4.3OF 10

Today

high

Mahi-mahi should be the day — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph SE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.23 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

    Open the Key West brief

    Right desk

    texas · Galveston

    Galveston Bay

    8.6OF 10

    Today

    medium

    Red snapper should be the day — fish the wind-blown shoreline — the table is not the tide here.

    13 mph SSW · 1% rain · outgoing

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

    Where

    • Flower Garden Banks · 9.4blue water on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    Open the Galveston brief