On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, April 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.6OF 10

Day

medium

Tarpon should be the day — hold for the next push; the pass does not fish dead.

1 mph ESE · low slack

Where

  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 7.1pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Gasparilla Sound · 5.9grass flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.5OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish should be the day — flood Copano and Redfish Bay grass — this is the mid-coast skiff day.

4 mph WSW · incoming

No live gauge this hour — the printed tide is the forecast.

Where

  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.4pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Mustang Island beach - SP to Packery · 8.4pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief