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 SE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.23 ft

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

Where

    Open the Key West brief

    Right desk

    louisiana · Venice

    Venice / Birdfoot

    4.2OF 10

    Today

    medium

    Redfish should be the day — flood the west-bank ponds, then the south passes if the bulls are in.

    3 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

    -0.25 ft

    Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

    Where

      Open the Venice brief