[Mike P]

Fishing the whole cove area of the flats from the bank is safe, except for one or two mudholes that you might go down into over your ankle.

Wading out to the mussel bed that's about 200' from the end of the lot at Bell Road is a different story. Many of us here have fished there since before you were born. There's a safe way out and a way out that will result in them fishing out your carcass from around Cleveland's Ledge Light. Also, the same thing can happen if you take one step too many off that mussel bed. I grabbed one guy by his wader suspenders one night and both of us almost went in before I dragged him back up. There's also the suction created when a big tanker, freighter or cruise ship goes by, and getting dumped on your can by a wake. That mussel bed is a place you should go to first in daylight, and you should follow someone out there who has been there before and knows the safe way out, and where to stand on that mussel bed to avoid problems.