On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, February 20. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

7.5OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wait for a push — skinny clear water at slack is a walk.

15 mph SE · high slack

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

Where

  • South Bay · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Fred Stone County Park (Port Mansfield) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Adolph Thomae Jr. Park (Arroyo City) · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the LLM brief

Right desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

8.6OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the falling ocean bank and Tavernier Creek; Pennekamp SPAs stay no-take.

7 mph SE · outgoing

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Tavernier Creek · 7.7channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Key Largo brief