The pics is an area I typically fish for Black and Red Drum, Whiting, Spots, Croaker and Pompano. This is flat beach fishing at its finest. You just have to look for during low tide and fish at high tide. They are there.Hope this well help.
nice info… thanks
King, thanks or the snap. I have always known to look for these troughs and depressions but never really knew just how deep the changes in water depth needed to be for a trough to be a significant fish holder. Thanks it looks like I have been looking for way more depth change than needed.
Thanks,
david
you’re welcome
Nice examples in those pics KOP. Good rule of thumb is fish where water is different. If all shallow fish the deep spot - if all deep fish the shallow spot. Low tide will show it to you but, you can also tell just looking over the water when high. Different depths have different appearance on the surface. ie…slick - white caps - tight chop. Each tells what lies below. On “Pier and Surf” forum in discussion thread and in the NC and Va threads they can school you good on that. Do a search and will take you to it. Those guys have it down to a science. They have dozens of pics and you can look it over. Then scroll down and the next pic the spots are marked. After you go thru a bunch you get pretty good at it. Very interesting stuff actually. They got way better bottom up north - lot of pancake flat bottom in SC. Around here what you saw above is all you have to choose from. But it work!!!
J Ford
Did you take those pics…I’ve seen water like that on folly for sure…is that where you took 'em?
Took a second look…guess that can’t be folly…is it ocracoke maybe? Or Portsmouth?
There is a picture online, folly surf is similar, but that is what you are looking for to catch fish
Yeah - that has been a learning curve for me. Still tend toward casting over the fish…and it wasn’t so long ago that I was walking through that kind of water or standing “in the hole” to cast out and over the breakers! I’ve been impressed at Folly to find water just such as this…if I walk the beach a bit at low tide and find it!
We stay just south of the pier every year. I’ll make at least one or two trips up toward the north end while I’m there, but wondering if it is worth walking south (a good ways, I think) to get to that first jetty below the pier? Is it worth it to leave water like this to go toss a line nearer that structure?
To me it was like a teaching aide to find fish. Sometimes they were there and sometimes they weren’t. It gave me more confidence for that type of area then to fish flat bottom beach. That’s what I have learned to look for and they do hold fish because it is like a highway for them.