On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Saturday, August 8. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Boca Grande

Boca Grande / Charlotte Harbor

8.1OF 10

Day

medium

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

8 mph SW · incoming

Where

  • Gasparilla Sound · 8.4grass flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Boca Grande Pass · 8.1pass jetty on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Cayo Costa / Boca Grande side · 7.7sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Boca Grande brief

Right desk

texas · Sabine

Sabine Lake

6.9OF 10

Day

medium

Redfish are the hunt — wait — slack on a border estuary is a pause, not a hunt.

10 mph NNE · high slack

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

Where

  • Texas Point / Sabine Pass · 6.4pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Keith Lake Cut · 6.2marsh drain on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Sabine Bank · 5.8pass jetty on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
Open the Sabine brief