On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Sunday, March 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.9OF 10

Day

medium

Tarpon are the hunt — wait — slack in Boca Grande Pass is a boat parade, not a hunt.

10 mph W · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — the same sand as it empties; the GT still owns the edge.

Wind not in · outgoing

Where

  • St François flats · 8.3hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 7.7hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Alphonse brief