On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, May 24. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

7.5OF 10

Day

low

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

9 mph ESE · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 6.6grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 6.4sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

florida · Key West

Lower Keys / Key West

8.3OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — make the run or wait; slack out here is expensive.

10 mph ENE · high slack

Where

  • Marquesas · 7.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Keys / Content Keys · 7.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Harbor Key Bank · 7.7hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Key West brief