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

7.2OF 10

Today

high

Mangrove / gray snapper are the hunt — hold for the next push; the pass does not fish dead. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

3 mph S · 1% rain · low slack

Where

  • Boca Grande Pass · 6.5pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 5.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Gasparilla Sound · 4.8grass flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · LLM

Lower Laguna Madre

8.4OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — sight-cast reds in inches on South Bay and the spoils.

8 mph SSE · incoming

-0.03 ft

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

Where

  • Brazos Santiago Pass · 9.3pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Mansfield Cut · 9.3pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • South Bay · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the LLM brief