On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.2OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wait — slack in Boca Grande Pass is a boat parade, not a hunt.

No wind reading · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 6.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 5.9pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

mexico · Ascension

Ascension Bay / Sian Ka'an

8.6OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish should be the day — Boca Paila and the drains; tarpon live in the darker mouths.

2 mph ENE · outgoing

Where

  • Boca Paila · 8.1sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Punta Allen / Ascension flats · 7.7hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Ascension brief