On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.3OF 10

Day

low

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

No wind reading · high slack

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 8.1grass flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 7.2pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.2sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

8.8OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — the bridge shadow and the falling wrecks.

13 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.7sand dropoff on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 8.4channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 8.3wreck edge on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
Open the Marathon brief