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Thought I'd share a few more details on what I was doing the other day. The conventional wisdom for the Castleneck River is to fish it the 3 - 4 hours either side of low tide, when there's good current flow. Convetional thinking is that at high tide, the fish are "too spread out". When I arrived, the tide had been dropping for about half an hour. There are some very steep breaks at the edge of the channel where the current has gouged out deep holes and cuts along the river banks. There's one spot where a little feeder creek dumps in to the main channel and as the tide just begins to drop, by marking where the grass is growning, you can walk out to a little point and fish teh muth of teh creek and the bank of the main channel. (I would not attempt this at night. the margin for error and an impromptu swim is too great.)This also is where one of the first very small current seams develops as the tide drops. The water in the channel is a good 10 - 12 feet deep and you're standing in about 2 feet of water. What I was doing was with short casts, working the edges of the banks. Casting, letting the jig fall all the way to the bottom and then slowly hopping it back, three short lifts of the rod, each one higher and then letting the jig drop back to the bottom. (I have no idea what the fish thought it was.) As the current and tide began to pick up, I began working the little seam I mentioned. I didn't catch any fish there. I think my jig ws too heavy at 1/8 ounce. (I have 1/16 and 1/32 on order.) It was interesting that when there was virtually no current, the falling jig worked and as the current picked up, the falling jig tailed off. I began searching for holes and pockets in the water, where a falling jig might appeal and was able to catch a few more fish. By half tide, the current was moving pretty good down at the "Rock Pile", so I moved down there. There the 1/8 ounce jig would suspend and drift. Fish were feeding pretty actively on what ever was being brought to them. A retrieve didn't produce hits or fish. A drift would produce hits and fish. I wish that I could have stayed the entire tide to see what would have happened as the flow of water became more restricted to the main channel. That will be for another time :-)
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