On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

5.8OF 10

Today

high

Permit are the hunt — oceanside banks for bones and permit — west-side mangroves for baby tarpon and snook. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

4 mph ESE · rain · incoming

+0.21 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • West-side mangroves · 5.8mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief

Right desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.7OF 10

Today

medium

Tarpon should be the day — sit the falling pass and the first harbor drains; this is current water.

3 mph S · 1% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 6.4grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief