On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, April 2. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

9.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph W · incoming

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 9.0grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 8.7pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 8.3sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

8.7OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout should be the day — slide to Land Cut and the holes; trophy trout leave the skinny.

17 mph ESE · outgoing

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 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 - PINS South Beach miles 0-5 · 8.4pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Baffin brief