On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, December 29. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.6OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 5.6sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

6.4OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — the oceanside wrecks and the falling contentment flats.

7 mph ENE · outgoing

Where

  • Marquesas · 6.1hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 6.1hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 6.1hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief