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 · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.4OF 10

Today

high

Tarpon are the hunt — sit the falling pass and the first harbor drains; this is current water. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

5 mph SSE · 9% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.1grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 5.0grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

6.4OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are in the mix — get off the skinny and sit the reefs.

8 mph SSE · 2% rain · low slack

-0.24 ft

Observed minus predicted. On this coast the wind often is the tide.

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 5.8serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Mustang Island bayside / Shamrock Cove · 5.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • TX - Lighthouse Lakes Trail (SH 361) · 5.0mangrove edge on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Rockport brief