On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, October 8. 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

medium

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

6 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

florida · Key Largo

Key Largo / Pennekamp

7.3OF 10

Day

low

Bonefish are the hunt — do not grind a Key Largo slack — the park traffic already did.

Wind not in · high slack

Where

  • Garden Cove / Pennekamp oceanside · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Rodriguez Key / Mosquito Bank · 7.1hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Card Sound / Jewfish Creek · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Key Largo brief