[Afishionado]

Fished the lake on Friday. Had read reports about the only decent water being on the South side of the lake, so we decided to try the flats off of the ship channel for the early morning. Threw topwater in a couple different spots along the channel with no luck. Decided to run Oyster Bayou to West Cove to try for flounder and found better water there. This isn't the first time I've seen this.

My question is how and why does West Cove sometimes have better water than the ship channel? I know it's very shallow, but how can the water clarity be better there than the water coming in from the Gulf? Please educate me.