On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, August 31. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

4.5OF 10

Day

medium

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

10 mph E · 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.
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Right desk

texas · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

6.9OF 10

Day

low

Redfish are the hunt — wait for the next push through the jetties.

11 mph S · rain · high slack

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

Where

  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.6serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.6serpulid reef on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - Goose Island State Park · 7.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
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