in my opinion it is one of the toughest places to catch them. The window of opportunity with the ripping tide make its tough. The lure must sweep through a zone to get them to hit. The way that water moves limits your time it's in that zone.The uniform configurations and depth of the canal doesnt help you any either was they have no reason to be in certain places. They seem to mostly ignore the bridge pilings unlike other ares also.Most guys use a heavy lure to combat the current but then the tide suddenly slows down and that heavy lure may now not give you the sweeping angle needed. What I found to work recently is stay light, 1/2 oz and just fish the tide change. Casting the jig at 10 oclock or 2 (depending on tide) to the other side and if you get a hit its going to be between 10/2 and 12 if that makes any sense. if it goes past you highly unlikely it will get hit.However it mostly appears to be a zero to one or two fish place per tide, but you have some chance at a "good" fish.
Fished 10:30 am to 1:30pm. Incoming to slow incoming. Fish picked at the baits, only one short until it began to slack off and then you could hook them. 3 to 5 ounces, # 5 Virginia hooks, green crabs. A bunch of shorts to 13.5 inches. Rolled a nice one that just crushed it out on the ledge. My line was on the bail instead of in the roller. Set it and popped the bail and then the line drifted and a short took the place of the keeper.Most of the fish just barely hooked on the outside of the lip. Could not get them to crush it like two weeks ago.Seems like less fish as I had to put it in a variety of spots to come up with about 10-15 shorts or so.
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