On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.2OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph SW · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.5grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Pine Island Sound via Matlacha · 6.8grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 6.6pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — hold for the next push through the cut.

9 mph E · low slack

Where

  • Current Cut · 6.4channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 5.5hard flat on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Eleuthera brief