On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Monday, July 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.0OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph ENE · incoming

Where

  • Boca Grande Pass · 7.8pass jetty on an incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.4sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Gasparilla Sound · 7.3grass flat on an incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.4OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

20 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 5.6sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief