On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, April 14. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

5.6OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — Marquesas and Harbor Key on a clean incoming — permit country. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

19 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.5hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.5hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.5hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Key West brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

8.2OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — wait for the next incoming; they will not eat a bad presentation here.

No wind reading · low slack

Where

  • Cape Florida Channel · 8.0channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • West-side mangroves · 6.4mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Biscayne brief