On This Water

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

4.0OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph ESE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.25 ft

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

Where

    Open the Key West brief

    Right desk

    florida · Boca Grande

    Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

    6.8OF 10

    Today

    high

    Mangrove / gray snapper are the hunt — hold for the next push; the pass does not fish dead. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

    3 mph S · 1% rain · low slack

    Where

    • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 5.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
    • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 4.8grass flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
    Open the Boca Grande brief