On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, March 13. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.6OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph E · 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 · Corpus

Corpus Christi Bay

7.7OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — Nueces and Shamrock guts until the pass turns. The wind is the tide. Work the leeward shore.

18 mph S · low slack

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

Where

  • TX - Kaufer-Hubert Park (Baffin doorway) · 7.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Baffin Bay - TROPHY TROUT, MIND THE ROCKS · 7.5serpulid reef on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • TX - PINS Bird Island Basin · 7.2sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Corpus brief