On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, November 3. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.7OF 10

Day

medium

Snook are the hunt — wait — slack in Boca Grande Pass is a boat parade, not a hunt.

5 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.5grass 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.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 6.6sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Redfish should be the day — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones.

6 mph ESE · incoming

Where

  • Flamingo basins / Buttonwood · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 7.4mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Snake Bight · 7.3grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Flamingo brief