On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, March 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

low

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

No wind reading · incoming

Where

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

Right desk

florida · Jupiter

Jupiter / Loxahatchee

6.9OF 10

Day

medium

Snook are the hunt — wait; slack here is traffic.

3 mph NE · high slack

Where

  • Juno Beach Pier · 6.8structure piling on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Jupiter Inlet · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Loxahatchee mouth · 6.4mangrove edge on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Jupiter brief