On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, April 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.4OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph WSW · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary 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.

14 mph SE · 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