On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Wednesday, February 19. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

5.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

14 mph WSW · rain · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 4.9grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 4.8pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 4.8sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

louisiana · Grand Isle

Grand Isle / Barataria

7.7OF 10

Day

medium

Speckled trout should be the day — push Barataria and the bayside grass — trout first, reds on the drain later.

4 mph NW · incoming

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

Where

  • Surf access adjacent to Grand Isle. NO camping - · 8.0sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Caminada Pass · 7.8pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Grand Isle State Park · 7.4sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Grand Isle brief