How To Spot Gutters On The Beach

Nice clean water with a bit of white wash is a good sign to look for.

How to spot gutters on the beach.

Pick the beach and the spot that looks the best for the tide you will have at the time you intend to fish it. A good sign as usually where there are mullet bream tailor jew and a few other species will be close by waiting to take their toll on the poor old mullet schools numbers. Remember that even though there are exceptions to all these statements if you find the deepest gutter on the beach and fish it properly then you have firmly stacked the odds in your favour. Keep in mind that the tide will be different and you need to allow for this.

In the middle of the v gutter a mullet jumps and gives away the position of a small group of mullet swimming along near the surface with their fins breaking the surface finning. As the tide drops keep moving along the gutter until the tide has eventually stopped. The fish will camouflage themselves in this and feed on the natural food that has been washed up by the flowing and churning waters. Gutter tactics part ii with pat brennan last issue we talked about finding and identifying gutters.

Volume fix version available here. Now it s time to begin to understand why fish will congregate or pass through a certain area on a beach.