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With the tides, particularly the flood tide, a movement of foraging fish flows to and from the shores seeking the hundreds of sea animals that live near or upon the shore, small fish, shell fish, worms, crabs and sand eels. Besides, the constant action of the waves continually pounding against the shores exposes other choice food bits. To read the sea, get on a commanding point and scan the beach. Search for stretches of dark water indicating pockets and holes. If these are behind sandbars and reefs, they will fish decidedly better. Regardless of how good the hole is, it will be almost impossible to fish if you must cast across a sandbar. The sea runs strongest here and will wash your line and bait ashore. However, when it is behind the bar or reef, the waves will break upon the sand and dissipate their strength by the time they reach your fishing hole. Such locations often prove best, too, because bait fish and other small marine life will seek protection here, too, from the heavy running seas, and where there are little fish usually the big fish will follow.
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