On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

6.5OF 10

Day

low

Sailfish should be the day — oceanside banks off Garden Cove and Rodriguez Key — bones and permit, then Card Sound if you want current.

7 mph SSE · incoming

Where

    Open the Key Largo brief

    Right desk

    florida · Islamorada

    Islamorada / Matecumbe

    8.7OF 10

    Day

    medium

    Sailfish should be the day — the wrecks and the falling ocean bank; pressured fish want a clean shot.

    11 mph SE · outgoing

    Where

    • Islamorada Hump · 8.7blue water on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
    Open the Islamorada brief