On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.9OF 10

Day

low

Tarpon should be the day — the Pass — tarpon in the throat, then Gasparilla grass for reds and snook.

6 mph E · incoming

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.7sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

seychelles · Alphonse

Alphonse / St François

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — look, do not wade a high-slack school across lodge water.

Wind not in · high slack

Where

  • St François flats · 7.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Alphonse lagoon · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Alphonse brief