On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, October 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

7.3OF 10

Day

low

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

Wind not in · high slack

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Culebra banks · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 5.9channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Vieques brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

6 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 8.0mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief