On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, October 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.3OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — make the run or wait; slack out here is expensive.

9 mph SE · high slack

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
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Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

8.3OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — Nueces and Shamrock guts until the pass turns.

10 mph SSE · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
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