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

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

4.2OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are the hunt — look, do not grind a high-slack school into the reserve.

16 mph E · thunderstorms · high slack

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 4.8hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Culebra banks · 4.8hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 4.0channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.0OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — wind and color decide; slack here is a look, not a grind.

Wind not in · high slack

Where

  • Snake Bight · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 7.2mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Flamingo brief