On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 10. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph.

Wind not in · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 7.0sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

7.2OF 10

Day

low

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

7 mph ENE · high slack

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief