New Strategy on Southern End of Ship Channel

[MathGeek]

Before we finally scored big at the restored beach on the bull reds Tue PM, we spent a few days working a bit harder due to weather and conditions. After striking out on Holly Beach proper and managing one bull red on Rutherford Beach, I noticed how the seagulls always chased the ferry picking up bait in the prop wash and it hit me that there must be a lot more bait getting killed or disoriented under the water, and therefore, there must be a pretty sizable bunch of fish laying in wait.

We tested the theory by setting up (incoming tide) just N of the ferry and casting out into the channel from the dock by the boat ramp. Due to the plethora of underwater snags, we only managed to land five bull reds in about 6 hours of fishing, but we had many more hook ups that broke off. I suspect that a boat could sit right at the channel edge and do very well by working better angles relative to all the underwater snags. I also suspect that most of the year there's a wide variety of fish chasing the bait disoriented by the ferry because when that thing hits the gas, there is a huge flow of water, faster than any natural tide I've seen down there and over a very big area.