On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, August 27. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

4.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph ESE · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 5.7grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 5.5pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 5.2sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · Rockport

Aransas / Copano / Redfish

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — drain Lydia Ann and the oyster edges, not a Galveston jetty program.

7 mph SW · 0% rain · outgoing

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

Where

  • Lydia Ann Channel · 8.4channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • TX - Port Aransas IB Magee Beach Park · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Rockport brief