How To Spot Gutters On The Beach

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.

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. Nice clean water with a bit of white wash is a good sign to look for. Keep in mind that the tide will be different and you need to allow for this. Gutter tactics part ii with pat brennan last issue we talked about finding and identifying gutters.

Now it s time to begin to understand why fish will congregate or pass through a certain area on a beach. At this point in time the fish will generally go off the bite. Volume fix version available here. 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.

This is crucial in beach fishing because if you re not in the best place the gutter then you re highly unlikely to find fish. As the tide drops keep moving along the gutter until the tide has eventually stopped.