Fishing Tide Lines....

[PathfinderNI]

Have heard people talk about fishing tide lines....anyone have success doing it? Do you need to be in the vicinity of a bayou or cut coming out of the marsh or can it be just about anywhere? What do you look for when trying to find tide lines, different shades of water, eddies, bubbles, etc.? Any help is appreciated, I'm always trying to learn more to be more productive!

[meaux fishing]

you mean fishing current lines? you can fish them around any structure. The fish will sit in the slower current and wait for the bait to come around and ambush it

[tngbmt]

we do that often at near shore rigs with great success.

[keakar]

where the current is will most times have some ripples and where the lines cross is where its more ripply but just past that you will see a calmer area of flat water (maybe where floating stuff gathers which is usually the calm eddy spot fish use to ambush bait as it tries to get out of the current.

and as meaux said, any structure will block current and fish hide behind it to feed

[PathfinderNI]

hadn't really thought about structure currents but it sounds like that would apply as well. Was thinking more about inshore bay applications where clearer water coming out of the marsh is pushing bait out into the bays and what signs to look for to try to find these trout feeding spots.

[keakar]

Originally Posted by PathfinderNI

hadn't really thought about structure currents but it sounds like that would apply as well. Was thinking more about inshore bay applications where clearer water coming out of the marsh is pushing bait out into the bays and what signs to look for to try to find these trout feeding spots.

if its a wide opening I usually pull right into it and let the boat drift back with the current until I start picking up steady fish. if its narrow I stay back out of the strong current and start drifting with it. a lot depends on current speed as to how far back the fish stage to feed so its as random as the weather but I try to look at where the tide loses about 2/3rds of its speed and concentrate there and it serves me well. as the tide slacks you move closer in and as it increases you back off more but its up to the fish to tell you where to be, sometimes they are off to the side and sometimes they are behind the current when it loses speed.

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by PathfinderNI

hadn't really thought about structure currents but it sounds like that would apply as well. Was thinking more about inshore bay applications where clearer water coming out of the marsh is pushing bait out into the bays and what signs to look for to try to find these trout feeding spots.

inshore there is plenty of structure too, doesnt have to be something you can see. Oyster reefs, sand bars, deep holes, etc