On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, September 1. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

4.6OF 10

Day

medium

Tarpon should be the day — sit the falling pass and the first harbor drains; this is current water.

3 mph SSE · thunderstorms · outgoing

Where

  • Boca Grande Pass · 5.7pass jetty on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 5.5sand dropoff on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Gasparilla Sound · 4.8grass flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · Baffin

Upper Laguna / Baffin

7.6OF 10

Day

low

Speckled trout are the hunt — Nine Mile and the Badlands guts, not a wade across the flat.

9 mph SSE · 4% rain · low slack

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

Where

  • Land Cut · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay rocks · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Mustang Island SP bayside launch · 7.2serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Baffin brief