On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, January 5. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — hold for the next push; the pass does not fish dead.

6 mph ESE · low slack

Where

  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 6.0sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 5.8pass jetty on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Gasparilla Sound · 4.8grass flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

8.2OF 10

Day

low

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

1 mph NNE · incoming

Where

  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 7.7hard flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Boca Paila · 7.0sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Ascension brief