On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Friday, January 7. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

9.0OF 10

Day

medium

Sailfish should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence.

11 mph SE · incoming

Where

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

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

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

10 mph SSE · incoming

Where

    Open the Flamingo brief