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

7.1OF 10

Today

high

Mangrove / gray snapper are the hunt — wait — slack in Boca Grande Pass is a boat parade, not a hunt. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

3 mph S · 1% rain · high slack

Where

  • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 6.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 5.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

7.6OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — the Sea of Abaco edges as they empty.

Wind not in · outgoing

Where

  • Cherokee Sound · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • The Marls · 6.3hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Abaco brief