On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, July 22. 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 should be the day — wait — slack in Boca Grande Pass is a boat parade, not a hunt.

6 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

5.4OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — flood the Ascension flats off Punta Allen — bones first, permit if you earned it.

7 mph ENE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Boca Paila · 6.2sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 6.1hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Ascension brief